Gaildorf
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Town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Location of Gaildorf within Schwäbisch Hall district
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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
- Friedrich Kausler [de] (1806–1883), member of Landtag
- Philipp Heinrich Hasenmeyer [de] (1700-1783), organ-maker
- Emil Walther [de] (1807–1857), Württembergian city councilman
- Theobald Kerner [de] (1817–1907), doctor and poet (son of Justinus Kerner)
- Karl Reibel [de] (1824–1895), merchant and member of landtag
- Wilhelm August von Breitling (1835–1914), prime minister of Württemberg
- Karl Nicolai [de] (1839–1892), Schultheiß and politician
- Richard Blezinger [de] (1847–1928), pharmacist and fossil-collector in Crailsheim
- Reinhold Kißling [de] (born 1926), agriculturalist
- Horst Hübner [de] (1936–2009), writer
- Stefan Heucke [de] (born 1959), composer
- Hartmut Holzwarth [de] (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.
References
- ^ Bürgermeisterwahl Gaildorf 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
- ^ "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
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Franconian Circle (1500–1806) of the 
Holy Roman Empire
- Brandenburg-Ansbach
- Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- Henneberg
- Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (from 1744/64)
- Löwenstein-Wertheim (from 1711)
- Schwarzenberg-Gimborn (from 1671)
- Castell
- Erbach
- Hausen
- Hohenlohe (until 1744/64)
- Limpurg
- Reichelsberg
- Rieneck
- Schwarzenberg (until 1671)
- Seinsheim
- Welzheim
- Wertheim (until 1711)
- Wiesentheid
Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories
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