The Lower Saale Valley is a nature park in the central Saxony-Anhalt, between Calbe and Hall. At the same time, the name stands for the no longer completely flat landscape between the Magdeburg Börde or the lowland in the north and northwest, the Pre-flaming in the east (across the Elbe), the Central German chemistry triangle in the southeast and south and the Mansfeld country in the southwest.
places
Down the river:
- 1 Hall - The suburb of Halle with harbor on the Saale marks the southern end of the region
- 2 Wettin - District of Wettin-Löbejün, Ancestral seat of the Wettins and the only surviving chapel of the Knights Templar in Germany
- 3 Skills -
- 4 Alsleben -
- 5 Bernburg - Former residential town with a renaissance castle, the "Krone Anhalt", high above the Saale.
- 6 Nienburg (Saale) - Located at the confluence of the Bode and Saale. In the Middle Ages, settlement and Christianization began in the east from Nienburg Monastery
- 7 Calbe -
- 8 Barby - Small town at the confluence of the Saale and the Elbe; Johanniskirche.
Other goals
background
The nature park established in 2005 is 180 km² and has been under landscape protection since 1961.
getting there
By plane
The closest airport is the Leipzig Halle Airport
(IATA: LEJ), which is well connected to the rail and motorway network and has scheduled flight connections with most domestic and some foreign airports. From Leipzig / Halle Airport you can take the S-Bahn or Intercity to Halle (Saale) Hbf and change there in the direction of the lower Saale valley. So you need a total of 35 minutes according to Könnern, 1:10 hours to Calbe, 1:15 hours to Bernburg.
The airports too Hanover Airport(IATA: HAJ) ; 180 km from Calbe) and Berlin Brandenburg Airport(IATA: BER); 170 km from Calbe) can be interesting for the journey.
By train
The closest long-distance stops are Hall (ICEs from Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg), Koethen and Magdeburg (IC Hannover – Leipzig), where you have to change to regional traffic. The hourly regional express train Halle – Köthen – Magdeburg stops among other things. in Calbe.
Branch lines on the routes Dessau–Koethen–Bernburg – Güsten (RB every hour, every second train continues from / to Aschersleben); Halle – Könnern – Aschersleben – Halberstadt (RE every hour, every second train from / to Goslar); Halle – Könnern – Bernburg (RB every hour); Bernburg – Calbe (RB every two hours, every second train from / to Magdeburg) open up further parts of the area.
In the street
The Lower Saale Valley is from the Federal motorway 14 Magdeburg – Halle affects. Departures are:
8 Calbe- 9 Staßfurt
- 10 Bernburg
- 11 Plötzkau
- 12 Skills
- 13 Löbejün
- 15 Halle-Trotha
The A 36 leads from the Harz (Goslar, Wernigerode, Quedlinburg) to Bernburg. In the east, the B 185 leads from Dessau into the Saale valley; there is a connection to the A9 (Berlin-Leipzig) near Dessau.
By bicycle
One of the most beautiful travel options in and through the lower Saale valley is the Saaleradweg. This is part of the long-distance cycle route Ostsee – Oberbayern (D11). The crosses in Bernburg European cycle route R1 from the direction of Berlin and Dessau or Münster and Wernigerode. At Barby at the mouth of the Saale there is a connection to the Elbe cycle path.
mobility
Car ferries about the Saale are in:
- Brachwitz (Löbejün-Dölau street)
- Wettin (Street Löbejün-Eisleben)
- Rothenburg (south Skills)
- Gross-Rosenburg
Tourist Attractions
- Wettin Castle - Ancestral seat of the Saxon margrave, elector and royal family
- Templar Chapel in Muenchen, one of the few Templar structures still in existence in Germany.
- Bernburg: Castle with Eulenspiegel tower; altogether worth seeing old town with town hall, flower clock, Marienkirche, theater, flood bridge, zoo; Memorial for the victims of Nazi "euthanasia"
Templar Chapel in Muenchen
Eulenspiegel Tower in Bernburg
Marienkirche Bernburg
Flamingos in the Bernburg Zoo
- Nienburg Monastery with the Gothic monastery church of St. Marien and St. Cyprian
- Calbe: Gothic St. Stephen's Church, town hall with Roland statue, lock
- St. Petri Brumby Church
- Barby: Elbe bridge, baroque palace, St. John's and St. Mary's Church
Nienburg Monastery
Nienburg monastery church
St. Stephen's Church Calbe
Roland of Calbe
Barby Castle
Elbe bridge at Barby
activities
kitchen
nightlife
security
climate
literature
Web links
- Lower Saale Valley Nature Park - officially
