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Within East Germany Halle's chemical industry, now mainly shut down, had great importance.
The famous Baroque composer Georg Friedrich Händel was born in Halle. Today there is an annual Händel-festival. Georg Cantor worked as a professor at the university of Halle.
A university was founded in Halle in 1694. It is now combined with the University of Wittenberg and is therefore called University of Halle-Wittenberg, or Martin Luther University.
Many plattenbau can be found in Halle, especially in Halle-Neustadt.
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