Gleicherwiesen

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Evangelical Church of St. Nicholas

DC Proved in Thuringia is a district of the city Römhild in Hildburghausen in Thuringia and as the neighboring village Gleichamberg a scattered village. The population fluctuates around 350 It is from the river spleen in the north, from the Hill of Witches in the south and the foothills of the limited Kuhberges and Leithe mountain in the east and west.

History

The settlement was first mentioned in 1100 under the name " Glychon " making it one of the older of the country. She shared in 1182 in " Glychon at the Wysen " and " Glychon on the Mountain", today Gleichamberg. The place was a fief of the Bishopric of Würzburg.

1743 has been filed by imperial ceremony to the rank of a market town with four cattle and fairs DC Proved. The fact that here flourished the trade, gives an idea of ​​the Jewish cemetery. In 1808 the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen and the Grand Duchy of Würzburg agreed on a land swap: the Saxon feudal Filke, Neustädtles, Sands, Völkershausen and Willmars came to Würzburg, Würzburg fief Berkach, DC Proven and Nordheim / grave field went as the mixed fief Bibra and Walldorf to Saxe-Meiningen.

Before the First World War, approximately one third of the population at that time belonged to the Jewish faith. In the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 destroyed a riot squad of SS from Hildburghausen the synagogue of the town, from 1942 carried the deportation of the remaining Jews in the extermination camps.

On 23 March 1993, the city was incorporated into the municipality Gleichamberg.

The church, which is approximately in the center of the village, was rebuilt except for the tower, in 1843 in the Gothic style.

Attractions

Local attractions include, as in the other villages of the region, the fair. Although you can not come up with a similarly large number of performers such as in Gleichamberg, but it has a special tradition. It is the only fair where the " cock pounding " is full of leads. Some members of the Green Party wanted to ban this brutal ritual in their eyes in the early 1990s. Since it is unique in DC Proved a long-cherished custom and in Germany, they could not prevail in court.