Schwäbisch Hall () is a
''Landkreis'' (district) in the northeast of
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, 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 i ...
,
Germany
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. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise)
Main-Tauber, the
Bavaria
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n district
Ansbach
Ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränk ...
,
Ostalbkreis
The Ostalbkreis is a Districts of Germany, ''Landkreis'' (district) in the east of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the border to Bavaria. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Schwäbisch Hall (district), Schwäbisch Hall, Ansbach ( ...
,
Rems-Murr, and
Hohenlohe
The House of Hohenlohe () is a German princely dynasty. It formerly ruled an immediate territory within the Holy Roman Empire, which was divided between several branches. In 1806, the area of Hohenlohe was 1,760 km² and its estimated pop ...
.
History
The district dates back to the ''Oberamt Schwäbisch Hall'', which was created in 1803, when the previously free imperial city
Schwäbisch Hall became part of
Württemberg
Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart.
Together with Baden and Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, two other histo ...
. After several minor changes, it was converted into a district in 1938. In 1973, it was merged with the district Crailsheim and the area around Gaildorf, which was part of the also dissolved district Backnang.
Geography
The two rivers
Jagst and
Kocher, tributaries to the
Neckar
The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar ...
, flow through the district. The landscapes covered by the district are the Hohenlohe plain (''Hohenloher Ebene''), the
Swabian-Franconian Forest (''Schwäbisch-Fränkischen Waldberge''), which includes part of the
Mainhardt Forest, and the ''Frankenhöhe''.
Partnerships
The district maintains partnerships with the
district Delitzsch (now part of
Nordsachsen
Nordsachsen (, ) is a district (''Districts of Germany, Kreis'') in Saxony, Germany.
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Delitzsch (district), Delitzsch and Torgau-Oschatz as part of the district reform of Au ...
) in
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
and the
Polish commune of
Zamość
Zamość (; ; ) is a historical city in southeastern Poland. It is situated in the southern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about from Lublin, from Warsaw. In 2021, the population of Zamość was 62,021.
Zamość was founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski ...
.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a coin in the top part. The city of
Schwäbisch Hall was one of the most important minting towns, the local coin ''
Heller'' was well known in all of Germany. Below the coin are two hooks, taken from the coat of arms of the district Crailsheim, as well as from the city of
Gaildorf. The black-and-white checkered area at the bottom is taken from the coat of arms of the
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. ...
dynasty, who ruled the area historically.
Cities and municipalities
References
External links
Official website(German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwabisch Hall (District)
Stuttgart (region)
Districts of Baden-Württemberg