Brandberge

It is part of the Naturpark Unteres Saaletal, a protected landscape area which extends along the River Saale from Halle to Nienburg.

The Brandberge was declared a protected natural area on 19 June 1996 and forms part of the Naturpark Unteres Saaletal.

Archaeological finds from the Celtic Corded Ware and La Tène cultures and also a former Germanic "Thing" site have been located at the Brandberge.

[7] The theatre was designed by Ludwig Moshamer and placed on a site abutting the existing assembly field, roughly extending its semi-circular shape with a parabolic amphitheatre (rather than the oval of most of the Nazi arenas).

(In fact the arena at Heringsdorf was begun first, in early February 1934, and also dedicated that May Day, but the official designation of Thingplatz was withheld from it until later, perhaps so as not to overshadow the Brandberge site.

)[8] Financed and built by the German Labour Front, the hall of honour opened onto the assembly field and was intended to symbolise that "art in actuality belongs to the people".

[9] It was made of porphyry and contained six larger than life sculptures by Alfred Vocke in rhyolite from Löbejün depicting different kinds of workers: a labourer, a farmer, a researcher, a miner, a smith and an ironworker,[10] and an eternal flame for which a gas line was specially installed.

Later the same month, the summer solstice was celebrated using both the arena and the assembly field, with Joseph Goebbels participating and 225,000 people present.