Gaildorf

Gaildorf is a town in the district of Schwäbisch Hall, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Kocher, 13 km south of Schwäbisch Hall. Gaildorf is the approximate center of the Limpurger Land district, formerly a county of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the counts Schenk von Limpurg until their extinction in 1713, thereafter inherited by a number of female heirs, and mediatized to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806.

Notable people



 * (1806–1883), member of Landtag
 * (1700-1783), organ-maker
 * (1807–1857), Württembergian city councilman
 * (1817–1907), doctor and poet (son of Justinus Kerner)
 * (1824–1895), merchant and member of landtag
 * Wilhelm August von Breitling (1835–1914), prime minister of Württemberg
 * (1839–1892), Schultheiß and politician
 * (1847–1928), pharmacist and fossil-collector in Crailsheim
 * (born 1926), agriculturalist
 * (1936–2009), writer
 * (born 1959), composer
 * (born 1969), politician (CDU)
 * Hermann Frasch (1851–1914), mining engineer

Buildings and structures
Naturstromspeicher Gaildorf, a combination of wind park and pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant. Three of the wind turbines were from 2017 to 2019 the tallest in the world.