Tannheim, Tyrol

Tannheim is a municipality with 1053 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Reutte, Tyrol ( Austria ).

  • 4.1 chapels of the parish Tannheim
  • 5.1 Tourism
  • 5.2 Education

Geography

Tannheim is the capital of Tannheimer valley which is traversed by the Vils. It forms a pile village, which is surrounded by various hamlets, which have grown by more recent settlement expansion to larger settlements.

As a mountain of Tannheim applies the standing directly in the north Einstein.

Community structure (as of 2013 )

Tannheim ( 51.31 km ²)

Berg ( D) Arc ( D)

Spirit ( W) Innergschwend (D) Kienzen (D) Kienzerle (W) Forging (D) Tannheim (D) Untergschwend (W)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The community consists of a single village cadastral or after the remaining villages were erased with a regulation of the Tyrolean provincial government in October 2013. Since December 1, 2012, the municipality has new street names.

Neighboring communities

  • Pfronten (D ) in the north
  • Graen in the Northeast
  • Nesselwängle in the southeast
  • Weissenbach am Lech in the south
  • Bad Hindelang (D ) in the west
  • Zöblen in the northwest

History

The settlement of the Tannheimer valley was from the west, ie from the Allgäu ago, only the extreme east with Nesselwängle, Gaicht and Rauth was settled by Aschau am Lech.

Originally Tannheimertal belonged to the vast land, with the Frankish rulers 750-850 the bishopric of Augsburg furnished them at its new or re-establishment. In 1059 the Bishop of Augsburg by the Emperor Henry IV received, among others, the colonization law, ie the law on forest clearing and application of settlements. The bishop gave goods and rights as a fief to members of the nobility on; so was in 1300 that primarily used yet as Alpe Tannheimertal three-quarters owned by the Counts of Montfort or a quarter of the Lords of Mountain Rescue.

Ecclesiastical belonged to the Tannheimertal excluding new wood ( parish Wertach ) the parish Sonthofen.

Culture and sights

  • A parish church of St. Nicholas was first mentioned in documents in 1377. After the demolition of dilapidated Gothic church today enormous Baroque church was built in 1722. The floor plan is based on the Innsbruck Cathedral and is to Neustift im Stubaital is the second largest country church of the Diocese of Innsbruck.
  • Additional points of interest: Heritage Museum Tannheimertal
  • Andreas Hofer monument (1909 built )
  • 9- perience trail
  • Felixe Mina's House
  • Vilsalpsee Nature Reserve with Waterfall
  • Urfall Usseralpe

Chapels of the parish Tannheim

Economy and infrastructure

Tourism

Tannheim has numerous tourist offers such as Vilsalpsee with its nature reserve, hiking trails, bike trails, mountain biking and Nordic walking arena. In winter, the tourists are standing at a ski resort Neunerköpfle, and ongoing throughout the valley cross-country skiing and skating trail available. The hotel and the tourist infrastructure and the mountain railway Neunerköpfle make Tannheim an important two seasonal tourist town in the valley.

Education

  • Elementary school
  • New secondary school Tannheimertal
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