Heer and Luftwaffe Signals School, Military communication training facility in Halle, Germany

The Heer and Luftwaffe Signals School is a complex of about 160 buildings erected between 1934 and 1937 to designs by Ernst Sagebiel on the Heideallee in Halle's Heide-Süd district. At its centre lies a roll call square entered between two pavilion-like guard houses, flanked by two four-storey three-wing school buildings whose courtyards open onto the square through colonnade-like passages. The adjoining General Maercker barracks is reached by a roughly 1.5-kilometre garrison road running in an oval; the buildings are plain plastered structures with hipped roofs, laid out like a garden city. The Geological Garden of Halle, laid out in 2002, occupies the courtyard of the southern school building.

The school was founded in 1934 and served as a central training center for radio and signal specialists during World War II. The facility played a key role in developing the communication capabilities of the armed forces.

The complex is laid out as a garden-city-like ensemble of plain plastered buildings with hipped roofs, unlike the monumental stone architecture of Nazi representative buildings. A 1.5 km oval garrison road opened up the barracks area. In the courtyard of the southern school building lies the Geological Garden Halle, laid out in 2002.

The grounds are reached via Heideallee in Heide-Süd; the oval garrison road, about 1.5 km long, links the barracks area, while the two four-storey three-wing school buildings face the roll call square between two pavilion-like guard houses. The Geological Garden of Halle, laid out in 2002, sits in the courtyard of the southern school building. Parts of the site now form the Heide-Süd residential area and the Weinberg Campus, so check access before entering university buildings.

The initial construction plans from the 1930s disguised the military purpose as a pasta factory to avoid attention during the rearmament period. This concealment strategy reflected the covert nature of early German military expansion.