Inscriptions on buildings, tombstones, bells, altars, and works of arts and crafts… – With the volume “The Inscriptions of the Schwäbisch Hall District II: The Former Schwäbisch Hall District and the Limpurger Land,” the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities completes its edition of medieval and early modern inscriptions from the district. The first volume, covering the inscriptions of the former Crailsheim district, was published in 2015. Over the course of eight years of research, the author, Harald Drös, identified and documented a total of over 1,500 inscriptions from the period between 1100 and 1650. In addition to the town of Hall, the most important locations include the former Komburg Abbey, the Limpurg towns of Gaildorf and Obersontheim, and Vellberg. This edition opens up an important category of sources—some for the first time—to regional and local historical research. This comprehensive, richly illustrated new publication will be presented to the public on April 21 at 6:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s Church in Hall.

The event is open to the public; admission is free.

The research project “German Inscriptions” (internal link) is jointly sponsored by six German Academies and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The goal is to catalog, edit, and annotate inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in the German-speaking world. The project is part of the so-called Academies Program (external link), through which it is funded equally by the federal government and the states. The Academies Program is the joint research program of the German academies of sciences, which have joined together in the Union (of the Academies) (external link), and is dedicated to cataloging, preserving, and researching our cultural heritage. It is the largest research program in the humanities and social sciences in Germany and is unique on an international scale.