Schmalkalden

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Schmalkalden is a town in the Kreis ("district") of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the southwestern portion of the state of Thuringia, in Germany.

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.

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.

Schmalkalden is the home town of Sven Fischer and Kati Wilhelm.

[edit] Key buildings of the Old Town

• Church of St. George
• Town Hall
• Reformed School
• Evangelical Deanship
• Todenwarth's Stone House
• The Island and the Salt Bridge
• The Rose Pharmacy
• The House of Luther
• The Court of Hessen
• The Liebaug House
• Large Stone House
• Weidebrunn Lane 30
• Town Fortifications
• The Hospital and its Chapel
• Wilhelmsburg Castle
• Stengel's House
• The Cemetery Church

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Coordinates: 50°43′N, 10°27′E