Talk:Schwäbisch Hall

Name etymology
West Germanic family of terms related to drying by heating? No. The article in German doesn't state or imply this at all. If Celts were extracting salt here then the Hall in the name is related to the toponym in Austria of Hallstat, where Celts mined salt. proto-Indo-European *sal/sel 'salt' changed into H-initial words in Greek and Celtic and remained S-initial in Germanic, Italic (Latin and its Romance descendents), etc. HALOGEN is 'salt former' in Greek and HALT is 'salt' in Welsh, etc. And so, the Hall in Schwaebish Hall simply means 'salt' and is from Celtic. There is no Germanic H-initial root that means 'to dry something by heating.' This is an assumption of non-linguists trying to make sense of the evidence. The etymology, based on the history of the location and the greater region, is clearly Celtic and means 'salt.'

97.121.238.53 (talk) 03:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Name
"Fountain of salt" sounds like a mistranslation to me. Any source for this etymology? --Pfold 19:44, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Relocated content
The following uncited content was relocated this date to this page. While generally well-written, in so short an article it constitutes an imbalance, creating an undue skew on the topic:

"During the November 1938 pogrom (Kristallnacht), the Jewish prayer room at the Herrengasse Steinbacher synagogue in Neustetterstraße 34 was looted and burned. Today there is memorial stone at the Haller marketplace, and a memorial plaque at the site of the Steinbacher synagogue. In the so-called "euthanasia" program of 1940 in the wake of the Action T4 directive 270 handicapped persons of the Deaconess Institute were largely removed and murdered. 1944 Hessental concentration camp was established, it had up to 800 prisoners who had to perform repair work mainly on the airfield. At least 182 of them died by murder, starvation and disease. At the cemetery Haller recalls a memorial to the Polish concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war. A memorial stone next to the mass graves in the Jewish cemetery Steinbach reminded of this death. Other casualties of the death march in Singapore dollars as the camp of the concentration camp Dachau Allach. Two deserters were on 2 April 1945 by SS-men between the Limpurgbrücke and the wooden bridge hung from trees. A 1990 by a group of artists without the permission deserter monuments erected there later destroyed by persons unknown. [4] On 17 April 1945 American troops occupied the city. The old city had remained largely spared from war damage.

"Already before the Second World War Steinbach were amalgamated with the Comburg, Hessental and Hagenbach. 1938, the chief official in the district of Schwäbisch Hall Schwäbisch Hall was convicted. In the 1950s, exceeded the population of the city of Schwäbisch Hall, the 20,000 mark. Thereupon, the City Council the request for elevation to major district town, the state government of Baden-Wurttemberg then with effect from 1st October 1960 upheld. In the course of municipal reform in the 1970s came the communities Tüngental, Weckrieden, Sulzdorf, Gailenkirchen, Biberfeld, Gelbingen Heimbach and the city of Schwäbisch Hall, in the first district reform January 1973 was the district of Schwäbisch Hall in its present extent.

Wikiuser100 (talk) 04:34, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Name the 2nd
"Schwäbisch" (Swabian) does not refer to the region of Swabia, but rather to the Swabian League, of which the town of Hall used to be a member. Schwäbisch Hall lies in Franconia, not in Swabia (though even some of the people of Schwäbisch Hall believe otherwise). Regards, • • hugarheimur 12:53, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

post WWII
It is surprising to me that the immediate post-war history is not mentioned.

Schwäbisch Hall was the place where SS officers, as prisoners of war (POWs), were "interrogated" by the occupying US authorities about the infamous massacre of US soldiers at Malmedy (Malmédy) December 1944, during the "Battle of the Bulge".

I put "interrogation" in inverted commas, because of the torture committed there at the time by the US forces. The US led commission of inquiry from 1946 states for instance: 137 (SS POWs) had their testicles permanently damaged from kicks of the US war crimes investigators. US general Clay said about this time: "Unfortunately, in the heat of the aftermath of the war, we did use measures to obtain evidence that we would not have employed later".

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