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Schwäbisch Hall
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English
+ (district)
Proper noun
1
en town/administrative seat dist/Schwäbisch Hall s/Baden-Württemberg c/Germany.
en rural district in north-east s/Baden-Württemberg.
German
de:,Landkreis +
Alternative forms
de Hall full name until 1930, still used colloquially
Etymology
de Schwäbisch Swabian + de Hall, the second element of uncertain origin, unrelated to de Halle hall, but perhaps rather from a word referring to sites of open-pan saltworks, for which see de Hallstatt.
Pronunciation
de /ˌʃvɛːbɪʃ ˈhal/
de De-Schwäbisch Hall.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
Schwäbisch Hall<toponym>
de town/and/rural district s/Baden-Württemberg
References
Kuno Ulshöfer, Herta Beutter (ed.): Hall und das Salz. Beiträge zur hällischen Stadt- und Salinengeschichte, Sigmaringen 1982, p. 8.