Rot am See () is a town in the district of
Schwäbisch Hall
Schwäbisch Hall (; "Swabian Hall"; from 1802 until 1934 and colloquially: ''Hall'' ) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg located in the valley of the Kocher river, the longest tributary (together with its headwater Lein) of the ...
in
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
in
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
with a population of 5,388 as of December 31, 2018.
History
Shooting
On January 24, 2020, it was the site of a
mass shooting
There is a lack of consensus on how to define a mass shooting. Most terms define a minimum of three or four victims of gun violence (not including the shooter or in an inner city) in a short period of time, although an Australian study from 20 ...
which killed six.
Twin towns
Rot am See is
twinned with:
*
Weyersheim
Weyersheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Population
Twin towns
Weyersheim is twinned with:
* Rot am See, Germany, since 2000
See also
* Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
The following i ...
, France, since 2000
*
Chatte, France, since 2002
References
Schwäbisch Hall (district)
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