Schw�bisch Hall (or Hall for short) is a town in the German state of Baden-W�rttemberg and capital of the district of Schw�bisch Hall. The town is located in the valley of the river Kocher in the north-eastern part of Baden-W�rttemberg. The first part of the name, "Schw�bisch" refers to the name of the region, Swabia. The most probable origin of the second part of the name "Hall" is a west Germanic word family that means "drying something by heating it", likely referring to the salt production method of heating salty groundwater. The salt mine closed in 1925
