Gaildorf


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

  • , member of Landtag
  • , organ-maker
  • , Württembergian city councilman
  • , doctor and poet
  • , merchant and member of landtag
  • Wilhelm August von Breitling, prime minister of Württemberg
  • , Schultheiß and politician
  • , pharmacist and fossil-collector in Crailsheim
  • , agriculturalist
  • , writer
  • , composer
  • , politician
  • Hermann Frasch, 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.