title: Hallenberg
text: Hallenberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  
  Geography
  Hallenberg is situated approximately 15 km southeast of Winterberg and 35 km north of Marburg (in Hesse).
  
  Neighbouring places 
   Allendorf (in Hesse)
   Bad Berleburg
   Bromskirchen (in Hesse)
   Frankenberg, Hesse
   Lichtenfels, Hesse
   Medebach
   Winterberg
  
  Division of the town 
  Hallenberg consists of 4 districts: the town proper and 3 villages:
   Hallenberg (2,660 inhabitants, 34.72 km²)
   Braunshausen (350 inhabitants, 9.08 km²)
   Hesborn (1,060 inhabitants, 14,18 km²)
   Liesen (780 inhabitants, 7,38 km²)
  
  Personalities 
  Adolf Winkelmann (born 1946), film director and producer
  
  Currency 
  
  From 1917 until the 1920s Hallenberg, like many German towns, produced its own currency, known as Notgeld. During the First World War this was because the value of the official coinage exceeded its face value, so coins were hoarded or sold for their metal, and then from about 1923 the rate of hyperinflation meant that the central bank could not print and distribute the ever-higher banknote values quickly enough, so this was done locally.
  
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  Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
  Hochsauerlandkreis