Schwäbisch Hall - Sulferturm 01
On the Kocherufer, large parts of the city wall are preserved, such as the Sulferturm. The town could only be reached by a furrow through the Kocher. In the half-timbered house next to the tower, the Haalamt, the independent administration of the former salt boilers, has been located for several centuries.
Schwäbisch Hall "Swabian Hall", or Hall for short, is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall. The city is located in the valley of the Kocher river in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg.
Hall was a Free Imperial City for five centuries until it was annexed by Württemberg in 1802.
"Schwäbisch" refers to the Swabian League (German: Schwäbischer Bund). The origin of the second part of the name, "Hall", is unclear. It might be derived from a West Germanic word family that means "drying something by heating it", possibly referring to the open-pan salt making method used there until the saltworks closed down in 1925.
Schwäbisch Hall - Sulferturm 01
On the Kocherufer, large parts of the city wall are preserved, such as the Sulferturm. The town could only be reached by a furrow through the Kocher. In the half-timbered house next to the tower, the Haalamt, the independent administration of the former salt boilers, has been located for several centuries.
Schwäbisch Hall "Swabian Hall", or Hall for short, is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall. The city is located in the valley of the Kocher river in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg.
Hall was a Free Imperial City for five centuries until it was annexed by Württemberg in 1802.
"Schwäbisch" refers to the Swabian League (German: Schwäbischer Bund). The origin of the second part of the name, "Hall", is unclear. It might be derived from a West Germanic word family that means "drying something by heating it", possibly referring to the open-pan salt making method used there until the saltworks closed down in 1925.