DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Baden-Württemberg
Regierungsbezirk: Stuttgart
Landkreis: Schwäbisch Hall

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Crailsheim is situated at an elevation of 414 m on the river Jagst in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg, about 24 km east of the district town Schwäbisch Hall and about 76 km northeast of Stuttgart. The municipality has a population of about 35,800 (2022).

Cröwelsheim was first mentioned in 1136. In 1314 it came in possession of the lords (1450 imperial counts, 1744 princes) of Hohenlohe. In 1324 it obtained the privileges of a market town adn in 1338 those of a town. During the dispute between several Svabian towns and Emperor Karl IV (who was supported by the lord of Hohenlohe) Crailsheim was besieged unsucessfully in 1379–1380 by troops of Schwäbisch Hall, Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl, a feat which it celebrates annually. In 1387 the city was pledged by the Counts of Hohenlohe to the three imperial cities of Rothenburg, Hall and Dinkelsbühl, and in the following year and again in 1390 to the landgraves of Leuchtenberg. The latter sold the city in 1399 to the burgraves of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern, who later became margraves of Brandenburg (1473 Brandenburg-Ansbach). In 1791/1792 Crailsheim passed to Prussia together with the principality of Ansbach. In 1806, as a result of the Wars of the Coalition, it came to the Kingdom of Bavaria, but already in 1810 was ceded to Württemberg.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crailsheim, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crailsheim]