Kleinschmalkalden is a village on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest in Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen of Thuringia, Germany.

For several hundred years, until the end of the Second World War, the river also formed a political boundary creating two distinct villages separated by only a few metres of water.

Passenger traffic between Schmalkalden and Kleinschmalkalden ceased on 30 November 1996, the complete line was lifted in 2002.

In 1994 it entered an administrative cooperation with the neighbouring town Brotterode,[8] before joining the municipality Floh-Seligenthal in 2006.

[1] The village is the home of the world's largest cow bell manufactured by the local firm Venter Glocken.

[5] Mining was the principal occupation in Kleinschmalkalden until the 17th century, accompanied by ironmaking and charcoal burning.

[4] Due to the steep slopes of the surrounding countryside, agriculture played only a minor role.

Currently, cow bells, tools, and other metal goods are made in Kleinschmalkalden, and staghorn is processed.