Halle

The location of the city of Halle is not just coincidental. The valley, which the Senne has dug out, takes a kink in Halle around the level 33 meters because the river leaves the hard rocks of its headwaters and continues its course in softer tertiary soils. The rock formations upstream of the city prevent the further use of the waterway for freight transport and Halle thus forms the terminus of transport on the Senne.

At the transshipment point that had arisen here, the important connecting axis that lies between the fertile loam area around Nivelles and the equally fertile loam area around Lennik passed. The later Nivelles Abbey possesses these two fertile loam areas separated by the wide valleys of the Senne and the Hain-Braine and this largely determines the history of Halle.

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