Oberweid

Oberweid (, , in contrast to "Lower Weid") is a municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany. It is part of the Hohe Rhön administrative community, which has its administrative centre in the municipality of Kaltennordheim.

== History == The first evidence of human settlement is a stone arrowhead several thousand years old that was found in this century. With the Frankish expansion eastwards, the region became part of the Frankish Empire. Oberweid was first mentioned in 795 in a deed of gift to the Fulda monastery.From 1500 to 1806, the village was part of the Franconian Imperial District. When Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg converted to the Protestant-Lutheran confession in 1544, Oberweid became Protestant. The village belonged to the Kaltennordheim office of the County of Henneberg, later to Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Eisenach Oberland). The village had its own parish from 1609 to 2015.