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City in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Schwäbisch Hall is a city of 42,000 people (2022) in the valley of the Kocher river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The city's main landmarks are the market square with St Michael's Church, Comburg Castle (a former Benedictine monastery) with St Nicholas' Church, and the Hallian-Franconian Museum, dedicated to the art and history of Schwäbisch Hall and surrounding Heilbronn-Franconia.
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A medieval Lutheran Church in front of the town square, or market square.
It explains the history of the town well. You can also see people working in the trade that made the town grow in the Middle Ages, salt, boiling it in the traditional way.
A small but very good collection of German Medieval Art that includes works of Hans Holbein the Younger and the Older.
A former Benedictine monastery.
An art museum.
Home of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, named for a local packaging company who bought the naming rights.
Der Sölchebäck
The old town is split between an upper town, which includes the town square and St. Michael's Church, and the lower town, by the river, where there is a Biergarten, more old town, and the Wurth Collection.
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