Schmeheim

This article deals with the community of Schmeheim. For the noble family see Schmeheim (noble family) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 10 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Thuringia
County :	Hildburghausen
Management Community :	Field stone
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.73 km 2
Residents:	264 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	98530
Area code :	036846
License plate :	HBN
Community key :	16 0 69 044
Association administration address:	Mauerstr. 9 98660 Themar
Website :	www.schmeheim.net
Mayor :	Frank Werner (Free Voters)
Location of the community Schmeheim in the district of Hildburghausen

Schmeheim is a municipality in the Hildburghausen district in the Franconian south of the Free State of Thuringia . She belongs to the administrative community Feldstein . The administrative seat is in the city of Themar .

Former school and church

geography

Neighboring towns are the municipalities of Oberstadt and Marisfeld also in the Hildburghausen district, Dillstädt in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district and the districts of Suhl: Wichtshausen , Dietzhausen and Mäbendorf .

history

It was first mentioned in a document in 914. During the time of the tribal duchies, the place was in the Duchy of Franconia . In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Knights of Schmeheim lived here . In terms of lordship, the place in the Themar office initially belonged to the county of Henneberg , after 1583 to various Saxon duchies and from 1826 to 1918 to Saxony-Meiningen . In 1920 he came to the state of Thuringia .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Schmeheim is after the election in 2009 of six council members:

• Free voters 4 seats
• Volunteer fire brigade 2 seats

After the 2014 election, the distribution of seats remained unchanged.

Culture and sights

Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nicholas

building

In the village stands the church of St. Nicholas on a hill . Your age is unknown. In 1697 the church was rebuilt and extensively renovated in 1836 and 1876. A redesign followed in 1911 and from 1994 to 2005 the facade was repaired.

Other historical buildings are a former inn with a cellar from 1607, a former school built in 1894, the bakery from 1873 and the village inn built in 1953.

Customs and traditions

The local dialect, the Henneberg-Franconian dialect, is cultivated by the older residents among themselves.

The parade to the parish fair is organized by the fair society in historical costume.

Other events are the pond festival at the end of June and the Backhaus festival in August.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population of the municipalities from the Thuringian State Office for Statistics  ( help on this ).
2. ↑ http://www.schmeheim.net/2.html
3. ^ Joachim Neubert, Günter Stammberger, Bernhard Grossmann, Martin Hoffmann: The churches in the district of Hildburghausen . Verlag Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen 2006, ISBN 3-86180-174-4 , p. 247

literature

• Schmeheim, a contribution to the Chronicle of Land and People, self-published in 2000
• Erhard Köhler: Dialect in the Little Thuringian Forest . Mundartverlag Schmeheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-014241-X
• Local family book of the community of Schmeheim . Dialect publisher Schmeheim 2006.

Web links

Commons : Schmeheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files