Saale,

Saale, a river of Germany, distinguished from smaller rivers of the same name as the Saxon or Thuringian Saale, rises on the western slope of the Fichtelgebirge (Bavaria), and, flowing northward through several minor states, finally across Prussian Saxony, past the towns of Hof, Rudolstadt, Jena, Naumburg, Weissenfels, Merseburg, and Halle, falls into the Elbe, about 18 miles above Magdeburg, after a course of 226 miles. It is navigable from Naumburg to its confluence with the Elbe, a distance of 99 miles, for vessels up to 200 tons.