Schmalkalden

Schmalkalden is a city within the southwest of the Free State of Thuringia. The long term political administrative belonging to Hesse third timbered and college town is a center within the district Schmalkalden Meiningen and is placed southwest of the Thuringian Forest. Schmalkalden regarded in 874 for the first time as Villa Smalcalta in a file subsequent to Wasungen and Schwallungen as one of those locations in the Grabfeldgau on which the Franconia aristocracy belonged Noble Kunihilt the monastery Fulda over.

During the clashes over the throne of the king among the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia and the Guelph Otto IV the place turned into destroyed in 1203. Elisabeth of Thuringia said good bye in 1227 in Schmalkalden by means of her husband, Landgrave Ludwig IV of Thuringia. Ludwig moved through Hesse, Franconia, Swabia and Bavaria to Italy to meet with the crusading army of Kaiser Friedrich. On September 12, shortly after embarking in Otranto, he died of a contamination. A year later, Count Poppos XIII changed into celebrated to rejoice the victory. Von Henneberg at the Wurzburg Bishop Hermann I of Lobdeburg in Metzels the founding of the Schmalkalder Nikolausmarkt.