Hallenberg () is a town in the
Hochsauerland
Hochsauerlandkreis (, ) is a (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Soest, Paderborn, Höxter, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Olpe, Märkischer Kreis.
The district is named “High Saue ...
district, in
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
, Germany.
Geography
Hallenberg is situated approximately 15 km southeast of
Winterberg
Winterberg (; Westphalian: ''Winnenmerg'') is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.
Geography
Winterberg is located in the middle ...
and 35 km north of
Marburg
Marburg (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has ...
(in Hesse).
Neighbouring places
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Allendorf (in Hesse)
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Bad Berleburg
Bad Berleburg (, earlier also Berleburg) is a town, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest towns by land area. It is located approximately northeast of Siegen and northwest of ...
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Bromskirchen (in Hesse)
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Frankenberg, Hesse
Frankenberg (Eder) () is a town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.
The mountain at a Ford (crossing), ford over the Eder (Fulda), Eder north of the Burgwald range was for a long time a fortified place, playing an especially important ...
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Lichtenfels, Hesse
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Medebach
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Winterberg
Winterberg (; Westphalian: ''Winnenmerg'') is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.
Geography
Winterberg is located in the middle ...
Division of the town
Hallenberg consists of 4 districts: the town proper and 3 villages:
* Hallenberg (2,660 inhabitants, 34.72 km²)
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Braunshausen (350 inhabitants, 9.08 km²)
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Hesborn (1,060 inhabitants, 14,18 km²)
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Liesen (780 inhabitants, 7,38 km²)
Personalities
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Adolf Winkelmann (born 1946), film director and producer
Currency
From 1917 until the 1920s Hallenberg, like many German towns, produced its own currency, known as
Notgeld
(German language, German for 'emergency money' or 'necessity money') is money issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis. The issuing institution is usually one without official sanction from the central government. This ...
. During the First World War this was because the value of the official coinage exceeded its face value, so coins were hoarded or sold for their metal, and then from about 1923 the rate of hyperinflation meant that the central bank could not print and distribute the ever-higher banknote values quickly enough, so this was done locally.
Gallery
File:Hallenberg, Hallenberg in bloemen foto3 2010-08-11 10.54.JPG, Hallenberg in flowers
File:Hallenberg, Sankt Heribertkirche foto6 2010-08-11 11.13.JPG, St. Heribert's church
File:Hallenberg-Gebäude der Oberen Kirchstraße.jpg, Buildings in Kirchstraße
File:Hallenberg Kernstadt Sauerland Ost 173 pk.jpg, Hallenberg 2013
References
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Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Hochsauerlandkreis