Bad Friedrichshall

Bad Friedrichshall is a metropolis in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Wurttemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the confluence of the Jagst and the Kocher into the Neckar, 10 kilometres north of Heilbronn. Bad Friedrichshall arose via the connection of Kochendorf and Jagstfeld in 1933, and is well-known for its salt-mine. Bad Friedrichshall arose in 1933 by way of the aggregate of Kochendorf and Jagstfeld. Its name Friedrichshall is derived from the term Bad for a brine and salt-works in Jagstfeld, named after Frederick I of Württemberg in 1818. The time period Hall is a common time period within the place related to salt industry.

A consolidated estate, round which humans settled and from which the village of Kochendorf arose, changed into first noted in 817. Situated at the confluence of the Kocher and the Neckar on a hill. St. Sebastian church probable already existed earlier than 1100. Around 1200, Kochendorf changed into enclosed with a wall of bricks. In the 13^th century there's first mention of a gentry of Kochendorf, managing ministerialis of the Staufers in Wimpfen. In the 15^th and 16^th century the gentry had 3 castles constructed. In 1672 the Freiherrs of Saint-Andre offered a third of the village, and constructed a new castle on one of the three former citadel sites.