Schwabish Hall, Schwabish Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg. A Remmick-Hubert Home Site Page

Last Updated:  4 Feb 2003

German Facts continued....

Schwaebish [Schwabish] Hall, Schwaebish [Schwabish] Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

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Towns Coat-of-Arms

[Clicking on this symbol will return you to this page]

Tourist Leaflet

St. Michael Church and Square

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THE HISTORY OF SCHAEBISH HALL

Schwaebish Hall is a town with many old buildings in their original state to the delight of the many tourists and photographers visiting it every day just like my husband, Garry, and I did in 1991.

The German town was founded on a Keltic settlement  site which was prosperous because of it salt springs  which  produced the salt needed for preserving food.

Under the Emperor Barbarossa the town received it's charter  in 1156.  110 years later the town became a "free imperial city".

The city lies  in tiers along the River Kocher  and it's marvelous old footbridges are an added photographer's delight.  One  of the old road bridges is shown here.. 

Photograph # Ill. 1 & II 10 which is the larger photo Click and See Larger Photo

A marvelous old bridge which crosses the River Kocher. Click on photograph and go to list of German villages in which the Remmick and Hubert Families lived before migration eastward to Austria-Hungary, Poland and, or,  Russia.

The town is nestled along the north-eastern fringes of the Swabian Forest.

Highlights to see are the following and dated for additional information:

Pre-1156

• Keltic settlement
• Old Market Place where , in modern times, in June to August the "salt-boilers" dance continues step by step to the steps of the old St. Michael Church during the Salt Makers' Festival.

13th and 14th Century:

• Remains of the Diebs Tower (Salienstrasse)
• Church of St. Urban
• Remains of the Malefix Tower (Saumarkt)
• Ruins of the Burg Limburg, a 13th century castle

1343 -St. Katharina Church

1456 - St. Michael Church

1494 - M. Erhat's high altar and crucifix in St. Michael Church dated 1456

1505 - Keckenburg House which was a nobleman's family, now, is a museum showing historical collections of the town people

1585 - Goldener Alder Inn was built and continues to serve people as an Inn

1507 -The old arsenal known as "Gross Buechsenhaus", also known as the Great Hall

1515- Crailsheim Gate

1732 -  The town hall was built in the Barque style.

Most roads of a town, known for it's production of salt are in direct line to large cities who's merchants carried the salt, were heavily traveled.  Therefore, it is not at all surprising that a nobel family took a keen interest in the area and gained farther wealth by owning the mines.  It was in the early 9th c. that one such family left it's mark. 

Just three miles SE from Schwaebish Hall is the defensive Abbey of Comburg founded in 1076 by Graf Burkhard II of Rotenburg-Comburg.

The town had it's own mint which produced Imperial silver coins, known as "Haller pfennigne" or Heller, which some museums have on display.  Hallers early coins can  hold dated as far back as the 11th c..

MAPS

See General Map which shows where Schwaebish Hall can be found.

THE HISTORY OF SCHWAEBISH HALL, THE TOWN

List of Photographs of the town.

Tourtist Map:  Nicker Valley Romantic Road

List of Photographs of the Town of Schwaebish Hall

• # Ill. 1: Small Photograph of bridge across the Kocher River is on this page
• Ill 2:- Coat of Arms of Schwabish Hall is on this page
• Ill 3- Tourist Leaflet - St. Michael Church and Square is on this page
• Iff 4 - View from large square near St. Michael's Church which looks down a road into the business part of town and at the foot of the street and passed the buildings would be the River Kocher.
• Ill 5 - Schwaebish Hall -Covered Bride
• Ill 6 - St. Michael's Church
• Ill 7 - St. Michael's Wall, Section One
• Ill 8 - Corner of Building's Fresco -Man
• Iii 9 - Freco reminds me of a devil's face
• Ill 10 - View of the old Johanniter Church and stone bridge over Kocher River to eastern side with old timber homes.... also, found at another web site, Photograph #2
• Ill 11 - Schwaebish Hall along the Necker
• Ill 12 - View of town from a bridge which is across the Kocher River
• Ill 13 -  Foot of main street (Neu Strasse)  that extends from St. Michael's Church to the Kocher River Bridge which takes a person to the old Johanniter Church
• Ill 14 -  One of the many various kinds of signs found on main street (Neu Strass)

BUTZ (Buss) FAMILY

A Remmick-Hubert Family History

Schwaebish Hall was where our ancestor Christian Butz [Buss] was born in 1716. His family 's history is connected to the brewing and selling of beer.  Christian's father hosted/owned a place called White Horse Inn.

Christian Butz

• b. 6 Jan 1716 Schwaebish Hall / Sch. Hall, Ba.-Wu., Germany
• 16 March 1767
• m. (1)  4 Nov 1838 to  Maria Christina Hausser b. 19 July 1718 d. 10 Sept. 1747, dau. of Jacob Hauser, a tanner in Nagold, Wu., Germany and  Margarete Christine ___. They had 7 children. Three children died as infants, one son died at the age of 22, he was not married, two sons a daughter did survive and did marry
• m. (2) 23 Feb 1748 to

Christina Frey, dau. of Greog Frey, a baker in  Aidlingen, Wu., Germany

• Issue (9):
  8. Albrecht Butz b. 28 April 1764 Nagold/ Wu. d. Borodino/ Bes. S. Russia m. Barbara Scholderer, dau. of Johannes Ulrich Scholderer and Salomea Staehlin

Christian Butz's father , Jorge Butz, was not born in the town of Schwabish Hall but in the district of Schwabish Hall but in the village of Grossaspach where he owned/hosted the White Horse Inn.

Butz's White Horse Inn, Grossaspach / Schwaebish Hall, Wu  [Baden-Wu]

*blue indicates direct ancestor of Judy A. Remmick-Hubert, webmistress

See Schweikert Genealogy Home Site. - Index Page for other families connected to Butz

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