Inscriptions on buildings, tombstones, bells, altars, and works of arts and crafts… – With the volume *Die Inschriften des Landkreises Schwäbisch Hall II. Altkreis Schwäbisch Hall und Limpurger Land*, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities completes Academy of Sciences and Humanities edition of medieval and early modern inscriptions from the district. The first volume, covering the inscriptions of the former district of Crailsheim, 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 new source category for regional and local historical research, some of which is being made available for the first time. The comprehensive, richly illustrated new publication will be presented to the public on April 21 at 6:00 p.m. in Hall’s St. Michael’s Church.

The event is open to the public, and admission is free.

The research project“Die Deutschen Inschriften”(internal link) is jointly Academy of Sciences and Humanities by six German academies and the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities . Its 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 theso-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 German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (external link), and serves to catalog, preserve, and research our cultural heritage. It is the largest humanities and social sciences research program in Germany and is unique internationally.