Hallors and Saline Museum

A newly created brine well had been used on the southern part of the Holzmarkt (lumber market square) from 1926.

[4] The purpose of the museum is to demonstrate the important role that salt production had on the economic development of the city.

The Exhibitive Saline has an annual production of about 70 tons of salt, which is sold locally to visitors and bakers in Halle.

In addition, visitors are shown the silver treasure of the Hallors consisting of artistically valuable cups and trophies.

Cups and trophies were gifts of local men and citizens to recognize the merits of the brotherhood of the Hallors.

The buildings of Saline are now the oldest witnesses of the industrial style architecture in Halle upon Saale.

The oldest remaining part of the Saline, now designated as a Clock House, is the former Salt Store, a timber-frame building from the early 18th century with a high ridge turret.