Kleinschmalkalden

Kleinschmalkalden Community flea Seligenthal Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 49 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	453 m above sea level NN
Residents :	1400
Incorporation :	February 1, 2006
Postal code :	98593
Area code :	036849
	Location of Kleinschmalkalden in Floh-Seligenthal

Kleinschmalkalden has been a district of Floh-Seligenthal in the Thuringian district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen with about 1400 inhabitants since February 1, 2006 . From 1945 to 1990 the place was named Pappenheim in memory of the politician Ludwig Pappenheim who was murdered by the National Socialists .

location

Kleinschmalkalden is located in the valley of the Schmalkalde , north of the town of Schmalkalden , on the southwest slope of the Thuringian Forest . Bells, small items of hardware and tools are produced here. In the GDR the place was a recognized climatic health resort. The switchback station Kleinschmalkalden was on the railway line Schmalkalden-Brotterode .

Special

The largest cowbell in the world is located in the village. It was built in 2003, is 3.28 meters high and weighs 920 kilograms.

Kleinschmalkalden was divided over centuries: The part to the west of the Schmalkalde was first mentioned in 1465 and belonged to the Amt of Brotterode in the rule of Schmalkalden , an exclave of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel (from 1866 to Prussia). After 1500 a settlement arose east of the Schmalkalde, which belonged to the Tenneberg Office in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha (1640-1918) and from 1920 to the Free State of Thuringia. Because of this, there are two Protestant churches in the village: one in Hesse and one in Gotha. The two districts were united on October 1, 1945.

Personalities

Since 1945 the community has been called Ludwig Pappenheims . Pappenheim was a social democrat, local politician and founder of the Schmalkalden newspaper “Volksstimme”. He was persecuted by the Nazi regime and "shot while trying to escape" on January 4, 1934 , that is, murdered in the Neusustrum concentration camp . On July 27, 1990, the community was renamed Kleinschmalkalden again.

The former Minister for Construction and Transport of the Free State of Thuringia , Andreas Trautvetter , 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
Philipp Hoffmeister (born April 17, 1804 in Eiterhagen, † March 5, 1874 in Marburg), pastor, draftsman, naturalist and fairy tale collector, 1829–1880 pastor in Kleinschmalkalden, which was then part of the Electorate of Hesse
Günter Horst (born October 10, 1919 in Kleinschmalkalden), football coach in the GDR and worked, among other things, as an assistant coach for the GDR national football team
Huldreich Heusser (born November 1, 1889 in Switzerland; † August 20, 1928 in Müncheberg ), racing driver, lived in Kleinschmalkalden and was buried here
Ferdinand Ochs (born July 9, 1824 in Kleinschmalkalden; † July 25, 1879 in Gersfeld ) was a German administrative officer and from 1871 to 1879 district administrator in the Gersfeld district .