Kleinschmalkalden

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Location of Kleinschmalkalden in flea Seligenthal

Kleinschmalkalden since 1 February 2006, a district of flea Seligenthal in the Thuringian district Schmalkalden- Meiningen with about 1,520 inhabitants. From 1945 to 1990, the place was called Pappenheim in memory of the murdered by the Nazis politician Ludwig Pappenheim.

Location

Kleinschmalkalden lies in the valley of the Schmalkalde, north of the city Schmalkalden, on the southwestern slope of the Thuringian Forest. Here bells, hardware and tools are produced. In the GDR, the place was recognized health resort.

Special

In the village is the largest cow bell in the world. It has a height of approximately 3.28 meters and a weight of 920 kilograms.

Kleinschmalkalden was divided for centuries: the west of the Schmalkalde situated part was first mentioned in 1465 and belonged to the Official Brotterode in Schmalkalden, an exclave of Hesse- Kassel (from 1866 to Prussia). After 1500 east was the Schmalkalde a settlement, which belonged to the Free State of Thuringia to the Official Tenneberg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha ( 1826-1918 ) and from 1920. Because of this, there are two Protestant churches in the town: a Hessian and a Gothaische church. The union of the two districts was 1945.

Personalities

Since 1945 the community was named Ludwig Pappenheim. Pappenheim was a Social Democrat, a local politician and founder of the Schmalkaldener newspaper " People's Voice ". He was persecuted by the Nazi regime and on January 4, 1934 " shot while trying to escape " in a concentration camp Neusustrum, so murdered. On 27 July 1990, the community was renamed back to Kleinschmalkalden.

The former Minister of Construction and Transportation of the State of Thuringia, Andreas Trautmann cousin, was born on September 21, 1955 in Pappenheim.

Other personalities

• Ernst Hoeltzer ( born January 7, 1835 in Kleinschmalkalden; † July 3, 1911 in Isfahan), telegraph operator and photographer
• Philip Hoffmeister ( born April 17, 1804 in Eiterhagen; † March 5, 1874 in Marburg), pastor, artist, naturalist and collectors of fairy tales, 1829-40 pastor in the then belonging to the Electorate of Hesse Kleinschmalkalden
• Günter, Horst ( born October 10, 1919 in Kleinschmalkalden ), football coach in East Germany and worked as an assistant coach for the National Football Team of the GDR
• Huldreich Heusser ( born 1 November 1889 in Switzerland; † August 20, 1928 in Muencheberg ), racing driver, lived in Kleinschmalkalden and was buried here

Gallery

Former school

The central village square with fountain

Half-timbered house

Largest cowbell in the world

Gothaische Church