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Encyclopedia > Schmalkalden

Schmalkalden is a town in the Kreis ("district") of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the southwestern portion of the German state of Thuringia. Schmalkalden-Meiningen is a Kreis (district) in the west of Thuringia, Germany. ... The Free State of Thuringia (German Freistaat Thüringen) lies in central Germany and is among the smaller of the countrys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), with an area of 16,200 sq. ...


Known as early as AD 874, it became a town in 1180. In 1583, it became a possession of the Landgrave of Hesse. Before World War II, it was in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. The town sustained heavy bomb damage in World War II. After the reunification of Germany, it attained its present political configuration. The present population is about 18,000. Standard of the Grand Dukes of Hesse from 1870 to 1903. ... The Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (German Hessen-Nassau) was created in 1868 as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Electorate of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, areas gained from the Kingdom of Bavaria...


In its town hall, in 1531 the important Protestant League of Schmalkalden, or Smalkald, was concluded, and where later the articles of Schmalkalden were drawn up in 1537 by Luther, Melanchthon and other reformers. The Schmalkaldic League was a defensive league of Protestant princes in the Holy Roman Empire in the mid-16th century. ... The Smalcald Articles are a summary of Lutheran doctrines, written by Martin Luther, which declared the positions on which Lutherans could not concede. ... For other people named Martin Luther see: Martin Luther (disambiguation), or here for Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Philipp Melanchthon (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German theologian and writer of the Protestant Reformation and an associate of Martin Luther. ...


Schmalkalden is the home town of Sven Fischer and Kati Wilhelm. Sven Fischer was born April 16. ... Kati Wilhelm (Born August 2, 1976) is a professional biathlete born in Schmalkalden in the Federal State of Thuringia, Germany. ...


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  • This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.

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Schmalkalden - LoveToKnow 1911 (135 words)
SCHMALKALDEN, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, situated in a narrow valley at the southwestern slope of the Thuringian forest, 30 m.
Karl Wilhelms (1815-1873), the composer of "Die Wacht am Rhein," was born here, and there is a memorial of him in the market-place.
Schmalkalden, which was first mentioned in 874, came wholly into the possession of Hesse in 1583, having been a town since 1335.
Landgrave Philip of Hesse (1504 – 1567) - tourismus.schmalkalden.de - Das Tourismusportal der Stadt ... (728 words)
It was the Landgraves of Hesse that secured Schmalkalden as part of their territory and the town has the young and dynamic Landgrave Philip to thank for its place in the annals of European history.
Conscious of the historic events and aware of the economic importance and strength of the town of Schmalkalden, Landgrave Wilhelm IV (son of Philip the Magnanimous, reigned 1567-1592) – who took sole control of the territory from 1583 after the last of the Henneberg dynasty died – commissioned the building of Wilhelmsburg Castle.
Schmalkalden, a secondary seat of the Landgraves of Hesse, was considered so important that it was afforded a new castle, heralding the dawn of a new era.
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