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the highlight this weekend. More information (german) Day of Salt Day of Salt. Picture: Nico Kurth. On this day you can see on site how real salt is gained from Hall's original brine in a boiling pan replica[mehr]

class artwork. The tradition of salt production and its importance for the city is vividly documented in the salt and brine section. This section is closely related to the salt simmerers' cake and fountain [...] the 13 m deep well and simmered to salt. Up until the 19th century salt was the commercial base of the city. The city's name goes back to this tradition of producing salt. Today the Hall brine ist still used [...] behind the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum the tradition of salt simmering lives on. Several times a year there are demonstrations of how real salt is obtained by simmering brine. 10. 11. 12. Turn right at[mehr]

significance. The tradition of salt production is revi- ved every year during the salt simmerers’ Kuchen- und Brunnen-fest at Whitsun, Simmering Shows in summer and a Salt Day in autumn. You can still [...] city of Schwäbisch Hall, a city built centuries ago upon the wealth of the „white gold” of medieval salt extraction. Discover a city rich in history and progress, a city of which the poet Ricarda Huch once [...] surroundings. Highlights are the sections about Schwäbisch Hall in the Middle Ages, its history as a salt production center and an extensive collection of painted ornamental symbols. An extraordinary piece[mehr]

be dated to the very late 11th century AD. At this time the town extended from the valley where the salt spring is located via the workshop district (the modern Hinter der Post) to the administration zone [...] today (the town hall, e. g., was inaugurated in 1735). The council enforced the modernisation of the salt production against the will of the salters in the 18th century, as a result, the production increased[mehr]

Schwäbisch Hall and its twin towns Cosmopolitanism and tolerance have a long tradition in Schwäbisch Hall. Salt was the ancient basis of far-reaching commercial relations. The Heller minted in Hall was a currency[mehr]

Picture: Nico Kurth. Old Town and Hohenlohe Open Air Museum Wackershofen Experience 2,500 years of salt history in one of the most beautiful historic old towns in southern Germany. Ten minutes away by car[mehr]

former imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall. The "cradle" in the prosperity of Schwäbisch Hall lies in salt. The salt springs characterised city life for centuries and brought prosperity that not many other cities[mehr]

relying on their own strength. Formerly, the wealth and the importance of the city was founded on salt, the white gold during medieval times. Our particular focus is on education, because the gifts and[mehr]

art and the excellent Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum which displays include the ancient extraction of salt, early industrialization, the Nazi era and post war recovery. Two new stunning museums, the Kunsthalle[mehr]