Hall in Tirol

Hall in Tyrol is a city in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria. Located at an altitude of 574 m, approximately 5 km east of the state's capital Innsbruck within the Inn valley, it has a population of about 13,000. Hall within the County of Tyrol became first cited as a salina near Thaur fortress in a 1232 deed. The modern name dates returned to 1256, and in addition to Halle, Hallein, Schwäbisch Hall or Hallstatt is derived from the Celtic word for salt. Since the 13th century the salt mine at Absam within the Hall Valley north of the metropolis fashioned the main enterprise of the metropolis and its environment.

The first adit changed into laid out in 1272 on the behest of Count Meinhard II of Tyrol, with the brine channeled by using a 10 km lengthy pipeline to the evaporation pond at Hall. The significance of the salt industry, which exported items as some distance as Switzerland, the Black Forest, and the Rhine valley, is meditated in Hall's coat of arms, which shows lions protecting a cask of salt. In 1303 Hall became a metropolis.