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| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Bavaria |
| Admin. region | Swabia |
| District | Oberallgäu |
| Mayor | Thomas Müller |
| Basic statistics | |
| Elevation | 815 m (2674 ft) |
| Population | 0 |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal code | 87561 |
| Website | www.oberstdorf.de |
Oberstdorf is a municipality and skiing and hiking town in southwest Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Germany (Deutschland is a Federal Republic consisting of sixteen States, known in German as Länder (singular Bavaria ( German:, with an area of 70553 Km² (27241 square miles and almost 12 A Regierungsbezirk is a type of government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states ( ''Bundesländer'') Swabia ( German: Schwaben) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in southwest Bavaria German districts (de ''Kreise'' or de ''Landkreise'' in the states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein, singular de ''Kreis'' and de ''Landreis'' Oberallgäu is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu, Burgomaster (alternatively spelled Burgo[[meister]], literally translated meaning master of the town or master of the Fortress Thomas Müller is the name of Thomas Müller (officer, German military commander Thomas Müller (skier, German skier The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time __FORCETOC__ Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen abbreviated to PLZ consist of five digits which indicate the wider area (first two digits and the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a City, Town, or Village, or Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Allgäu is a German region in the southwest of Bavaria also extending some kilometres into southeastern Baden-Württemberg. The Northern Limestone Alps ( German: Nördliche Kalkalpen) are the ranges of the Eastern Alps north of the Central Eastern Alps located
At the center of Oberstdorf is a church whose tall spire serves as a landmark for navigating around town. The summits of the Nebelhorn and Fellhorn provide dramatic panoramic views of the alps. The Nebelhorn (2224 m is a Mountain in the Allgäu Alps in Germany, near to the village of Oberstdorf. The Fellhorn (2038 m is a Mountain in the Allgäu Alps near Oberstdorf, Germany, on the border with Austria. The Nebelhorn can be reached with a big cable car. Oberstdorf is one of the highest market towns in Germany.
Visitors can ride a unique diagonal elevator to the top of the Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze. Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze is a ski flying hill and the second largest ski jumping hill in the world in Oberstdorf, Germany.
Oberstdorf hosts every New Year the first part of famous Four Hills Tournament in ski jump. The Four Hills Tournament (Vierschanzentournee is composed of four Ski Jumping World Cup events and has taken place in Germany and Austria each Ski jumping is a Sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp (the jump attempting to go as far as possible
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Germany's modern figure skating center was built on the outside of the town. Figure skating is an athletic Sport in which individuals pairs or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging It has three covered rinks and some of them are accessible to the public, for recreational skating.
Oberstdorf hosts the annual Nebelhorn Trophy figure skating competition and has hosted the German Figure Skating Championships twelve times. The Nebelhorn Trophy is an international senior-level Figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union and held annually in Oberstdorf The German Figure Skating Championships (Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national It has also hosted the 1982, 2000, and 2007 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. The World Junior Figure Skating Championships ( "World Juniors" or "Junior Worlds") is an annual Figure skating competition sanctioned
Trivia
The American Broadcasting Company's Wide World of Sports inadvertently featured Oberstdorf when Vinko Bogataj fell during the ski jump in 1970 and became "The Agony of Defeat". The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. ABC's Wide World of Sports was a long-running Sports Anthology show on American Television that ran as a series from 1961 to 1998 Vinko Bogataj (born 1950 is a former ski jumper from Slovenia who became noted on US Television in the 1970s for a moment of spectacular failure Ski jumping is a Sport in which skiers go down an "inrun" with a take-off ramp (the jump attempting to go as far as possible Vinko Bogataj (born 1950 is a former ski jumper from Slovenia who became noted on US Television in the 1970s for a moment of spectacular failure
Sister cities
Megève, France. Megève is a Town and commune in the Haute-Savoie department and Rhône-Alpes region of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
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