Giebichenstein
Stadtteil of Halle
Location of Giebichenstein
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Coordinates: 51°30′9″N 11°57′16″E / 51.50250°N 11.95444°E / 51.50250; 11.95444
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
City	Halle
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)

Giebichenstein is a district (Stadtteil) in the north of Halle (Saale) on the eastern bank of the river Saale in the Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany. It is part of the Stadtbezirk Nord.^[1][2]

• German physicist Eduard Grüneisen was born in Giebichenstein.
• Georg Händel, father of famous composer George Frideric Handel, was town surgeon of Giebichenstein.
• Georg Friedrich Meier, a German philosopher and aesthetician, died in Giebichenstein.
• Hans Caspar von Krockow was the Amtshauptmann [de] of Giebichenstein.

The Giebichenstein Castle is situated in the north of Giebichenstein district, next to the Saale river.

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  Giebichenstein Castle, pictured in 2015

• Giebichenstein boulder, in Lower Saxony