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It pursues a winding course in a northerly direction, and after passing the manufacturing town of Hof, flows amid well-wooded hills until it reaches the pleasant valley of Saalberg . Here it receives the waters of the Schwarza , in whose valley lies the castle of Schwarzburg , the ancestral seat of the princess of the ruling house of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. From Saalberg the Saale enters the limestone formation of Thuringia, sweeps beneath the barren, conical hills lying opposite to the university town of Jena, passes the watering-place of Kdsen , washes numerous vine-clad hills and, after receiving at Naumburg the deep and navigable Unstrut , flows past Weissenfels , Merseburg, HalleHalle is the name of two cities in Germany, and both a municipality and a town in Belgium. Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, often referred as Halle (Saale Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia Halle, Belgium (municipality) Halle, Zoersel, Belgium (town)., Bernburg and Kalbe , and joins the Elbe just above BarbyBarby is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. Villages in Northamptonshire., after traversing a distance of 226 m. It is navigable from Naumburg , 100 m., with the help of sluiceA sluice is a water channel that is controlled at its head by a gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wooden or metal plate which slides in grooves in the sides of the channel. Operation Raising a sluice gate allows water to flow under it. The term sluics, and is connected with the Elster near LeipzigLeipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] ( Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk is the largest city in the federal state ( Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. The name is derived from the Slavic word (see Sorbian) Lipsk (settlement where the linden trees stand). It is s by a canal. The soil of the lower part of its valley is of exceptional fertility, and produces, amongst other crops, large supplies of sugar beetSugar beet ''Beta vulgaris L. one of the Goosefoot ( Chenopodiaceae) family, is a plant that contains a very high concentration of sucrose, and is grown commercially for sugar. Sugar beets are grown mainly in Europe, the United States, and China. Beet sug. Among its tributaries are the Elster , RegnitzThe Regnitz is a river in Bavaria, Germany. It is an affluence of the Main and is 68 km in length. The river is formed by the confluence of the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz, which meet in the city of Furth. From there the Regnitz runs northwards through the and Orla on the right bank, and the Ilm , Unstrut , Salza , Wipper and Bode on the left. Its upper course is rapid. Its valley, down to Merseburg, contains many castles which crown the enclosing heights.
It is sometimes called the Thuringian or Saxon Saale, to distinguish it from another Saale (70 m. long), a right-bank tributary of the Main, in the Bavarian district of Lower Franconia.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica. 1911 Britannica