
The Tannheimer Tal ("Tannheim valley") is a
high valley, at an elevation of about 1,100 metres, in the
Tannheim Mountains, which are part of the
Allgäu Alps
The Allgäu Alps (german: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance.
Character ...
in the
Austrian state of
Tyrol (
county of Reutte).It is a left sided tributary to the lech river.
Geography
The Tannheimer Tal branches off the upper
Lech valley as a
hanging valley near
Weißenbach, runs via the
Gaicht Pass
Gaicht Pass (el. 1093 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in Tyrol in Austria.
It connects the valley of the Lech near Weißenbach an der Lech with the Tannheim valley near Nesselwängle. It is crossed by federal highway B 199, which runs a ...
and the lake of
Haldensee to the
Oberjoch Pass in
Bavaria. Between the Haldensee and Nesselwängle it runs as a
valley-floor divide at around . East of it, the Nesselwängler Ache, Warpsbach and Weißenbach drain into the Lech, to the west the Berger Ache and
Vils rivers flow through it. The Vils runs in a wide bow around the Tannheim Mountains and also empties into the Lech at the town of
Vils.
External links
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Land Tirol: Planungsverband 01 - TannheimertalTannheimer Talin ''Tirol Atlas der Universität Innsbruck''
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Ski areas and resorts in Austria
Regions of Tyrol (state)
Valleys of Tyrol (state)
Allgäu Alps
Reutte District