Tannheim (Württemberg) () is a municipality in the district of Biberach,

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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Geography

It is located in upper Swabia at the river

Iller The Iller (; ancient name Ilargus) is a river of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube, long. It is formed at the confluence of the rivers Breitach, Stillach and Trettach near Oberstdorf in the Allg ...

which forms the border to

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Sights

*Church of St. Martin, built 1700–1702

Entertainment and culture

Tannheim was the home of the annual

Tannkosh Tannkosh was a large airshow and fly-in held annually in July at Tannheim, upper Swabia Swabia ; german: Schwaben , colloquially ''Schwabenland'' or ''Ländle''; archaic English also Suabia or Svebia is a cultural, historic and linguisti ...

airshow from 1993 to 2013.

Notable citizens

*Norbert Kiechle (1885–1966), former Landrat *Richard Ferdinand Maximilian Ignatius Joseph Valentin Hubertus Maria Graf von Schaesberg-Tannheim (1884–1953), nobleman and businessman, winner of an Olympic silver medal (1912); *Josef Dreier (born 1931), politician, former Secretary of State, Baden-Württemberg * Matthias Dolderer (born 1970), German pilot and Red Bull Air Race Champion (2016) *Ralph Brunner (born 1971), recipient of Paralympic medals, 2000

References

External links

Official Web site
AlterPfarrhof Tannheim-b

Biberach (district) Württemberg {{Biberach-geo-stub