HALL (generally known as ScHwXBISCH-HALL, to distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria), a town of Germany, in the Land of Wurttemberg, situated on the Kocher, and on the railway from Heilbronn to Krailsheim, 35 m. N.E. of Stuttgart. Pop. (1933) 11,239. Hall was early of importance on account of its salt-mines, which were held as a fief of the Empire by the Salzgrafen who had their seat in the castle of Hall. The word Hall or Hal, in some form, with or without a suffix, comes into the name of many ancient towns connected with salt. Later the town belonged to the Knights Templars. It was made a free imperial city in 1276 by Rudolph of Habsburg. In 1802 it came into the possession of Wurttemberg. The Michaeliskirche dates from the 15th cen tury and has fine mediaeval carving. A short distance south from the town is the castle of Komburg, formerly a Benedictine abbey, with a church dating from the 12th century. The town is chiefly known for its production of salt, which is converted into brine and piped from Wilhelmsgluck mine, 5 m. distant. The industries of the town also include cotton-spinning, tanning and the manu facture of soap, starch, brushes, machines and flat irons.