Schwäbisch Hall

In 1349, local Jews living in the city were put to fire ^[2] .

On the territory of the present district of Schwäbisch Hall in the last years of the Old Empire there were many church, secular and chivalrous possessions, which between 1802 and 1810 went to Wurttemberg in full force as a reparation : including parts of the principalities of Hohenlohe, the Prussian crown (through Bavaria), counties Limburg and Ettingen, the monasteries of Murrhardt, Lorsch and Adelberg, the Knights Monastery of Comburg, the princely parish of Ellwangen, the German Order, the imperial cities of Hall, Gmünd and Dinkelsbühl, and finally, the possessions of numerous knights belonging Xia to the knightly cantons of Altmühl, Kocher and Odenwald.

Only in the south were there separate territories that had previously belonged to the Duchy of Württemberg , among them part of the possession of the Vogtheim Vogt , which it received from the Monastery of Murrhardt thanks to the Reformation, and a number of territories of the county of Limburg, which it had acquired since 1780.

The largest area was occupied by the territory of the imperial city of Hall (approx. 500 km²). The historical structure of settlements, divided into a large number of small units, is manifested today in the presence of numerous settlements, which before the territorial reform of the early 70s were part of 104 communities, most of which were small.

From the territories allotted to Württemberg by the decision of the Imperial Sejm on the elimination of church and small independent possessions, Elector Frederick formed his own state, New Württemberg, which included almost the entire territory of the district. After Frederick was proclaimed king, in 1806 he united both states - Old and New Württemberg - into a single kingdom of Württemberg , which he, after numerous experiments in 1810, divided into districts (Oberämter).

In 1802/03, the Hall district emerged, which included mainly the territory of the former imperial city. Heildorf County was founded on the lands of the county of Limburg in 1806.

Finally, in 1810, they were first followed by the Prussians, and then the Bavarian counties Crailsheim and Blaufelden, whose administrative center was transferred from Blaufelden to Herabronn in 1811. These four counties, which were renamed Kreise in 1934, existed until 1938.

In 1905, 9,400 residents lived in the city ^[2] .

The Administrative Division Act of April 25, 1938 abolished by October 1, 1938 a total of 27 districts, including Geildorf and Gerard. Most of the Heildorf district with the Limburg region became part of the Backnang district, and the rest of the former district was included in the Hall district, which was also replenished by the Bulertann and Bulerzell communities (formerly Ellwangen district), as well as by separate communities of the Künzelsau and Ohringen districts.

Significantly increased Crailsheim County received 31 of the 35 communities of Herabronn, as well as Ettenhausen and Zimprechtshausen (formerly Kunzelsau district).

One of the main attractions of Schwäbisch Hall is the Monastery of Comburg.

It was founded in the late 1070s by Count Comburg-Rothenburg on the site of a family castle.

The date of obtaining the status of imperial abbey XIV century. (Imperial Abbey - a monastery within the Holy Roman Empire)

The monks of Comburg were exclusively nobility and therefore resisted the Benedictine reforms of the 15th century, which allowed commoners into the monastic communities. In 1488, the monastery turned into a collegiate institution.

In 1587, the Comburg Abbey lost the status of the Imperial Abbey and was mediated by Württemberg. In 1803, secularized by Württemberg. ^[four]

The Abbey’s library is kept in the Württemberg State Library, but all church treasures, unfortunately, have been melted down in the Ludwigsburg mint. Since then, the abbey buildings have been used for a wide variety of purposes. Until 1909, the Board of Disabled Soldiers (Ehreninvalidenkorps) was located here. During World War II, the territory was used for various preparatory (training) purposes, and a prisoner of war camp was also based here. After the war, there was a refugee camp. Since 1947, a pedagogical institution has been located here.

Now the monastery is an institution of advanced training.

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• Gall (city) // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.
• Gall // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.

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