Tannhausen

Tannhausen is a municipality in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, in Ostalbkreis district.Tannhausen is located approximately 20km east of Ellwangen at the edge of the Nördlinger Ries in Swabian Wuerttemberg close to the border of the franconian part of Bavaria, where the administrative districts of Swabian Bavaria meets central Franconia.Nearby MunicipalitiesThe boundaries of the municipality are located in the north onto Stödtlen, in the east onto the bavarian municipalities Wilburgstetten (rural district of Ansbach, central Franconia), and Fremdingen (rural district of Donau-Ries, Swabia), in the south onto Unterschneidheim and in the far west onto the city area of Ellwangen.StructureNext to the main village of Tannhausen, six more communities belong to the municipality, Riepach, Bleichroden, Sederndorf, Hagenbucherhof, Bergheim, and Ellrichsbronn.HistoryTannhausen was first documented in 1100. At this time the local Nobility, the Lords of Thannhausen had already resided in their castle and are still present there today. It is assumed that the famous mediaeval minnesinger and poet Tannhäuser was an offspring of this family.Next to the local Nobilility, Tannhausen had also several clerical and worldly dignitaries, which had the use of some authority in the village. During German mediatisation in 1806, Tannhausen belonged to the State of Bavaria; however, it became later a part of the duchy of Württemberg on January 12, 1810.