HALBERSTADT,OSTDEUTSCHLAND ! WIE LEBEN DIE OSTDEUTSCHEN ? 4K VIDEO

Halberstadt (Low German: Halwerstidde) is a district town and industrial town in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt with almost 40,500 inhabitants (as of 2022). The town on the Holtemme forms a supra-regional railway junction in the northern Harz foothills and is also well connected to federal roads (B 79, 81, 245) and the A 36. Due to the meeting of several historic highways from the west of Goslar and Wolfenbüttel, in the north of Magdeburg and in the east of Halle (Saale) and Leipzig, it is also called the gateway to the Harz. The city was the seat of the Halberstadt bishop from the 9th century until 1648. Halberstadt is known nationally for its episcopal cathedral in the French Gothic style and the Martinikirche as well as for the Halberstadt sausages. In the 18th century, the local Jewish community comprised around a tenth of the city's population, making it one of the largest and most important in Central Germany and, alongside Frankfurt am Main, a center of Jewish orthodoxy in Germany until the 20th century. More than 80 percent of Halberstadt's city center was destroyed by an air raid on April 8, 1945. During the GDR era, there was little interest in the historical buildings; From 1990 onwards, however, many buildings were renovated. Particularly in the northern old town, around the Voigtei and the Westendorf district, some half-timbered houses worth seeing have been preserved, a total of around 450 in the city center and others in the old town centers in the rural outer city areas such as Langenstein. Since 2001, the performance of John Cage's composition ORGAN²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) in the Saint Burchardi Church, the longest-lasting piece of music in the world at 639 years, has achieved international fame. Don't forget to take a look at the famous Halberstadt sausages and marvel at the Liebfrauenkirche from the inside. We look forward to accompanying you on this unforgettable trip!