District of Saalekreis / Landkreis Saalekreis

The Saalekreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt that was created in the course of the second district reform on July 1, 2007 from the Saalkreis and the Merseburg-Querfurt district. The seat of administration and district council is Merseburg. The district is located in the south of Saxony-Anhalt and completely encloses the independent city of Halle (Saale). In the south it borders on the Burgenlandkreis, in the north-west on the Mansfeld-Südharz district, in the north on the Salzlandkreis and in the north-east on the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district. It also has a border with Thuringia (Kyffhäuserkreis) in the west and one with Saxony in the east (Leipzig district and Nordsachsen district).