Schwaz
Schwaz is a city in Northeast Tyrol, in Austria. It is the main town of the Schwaz district. The city borders the Karwendel Mountains to the north and the Tux Alps to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Haneburger, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: city in Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
- Also known as: “Schwaz in Tirol”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burg Freundsberg and Museum der Völker.
Burg Freundsberg
Castle
Photo: Wolfgang glock, CC BY 3.0.
Burg Freundsberg is a castle in Tyrol, Austria, that was constructed in the year of 1150 by the lords of Freundsberg. Burg Freundsberg is 675 metres above sea level.
Museum der Völker
Museum
Photo: Haus der Völker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum der Völker in the Austrian Schwaz in the county of Tyrol was founded in 1995 as a cultural association Haus der Völker by Gert Chesi and belongs to the well known Ethnology museums in Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pill.
Pill
Village
Photo: Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pill is a municipality in the Schwaz district in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The 2024 Tour of the Alps passed through Pill on the 16th of April. Pill is situated 3½ km southwest of Schwaz.
Schwaz
- Categories: municipality of Austria, place with town rights and privileges, and locality
- Location: Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.345° or 47° 20′ 42″ northLongitude
11.7084° or 11° 42′ 30″ eastPopulation
13,100Elevation
537 metres (1,762 feet)United Nations Location Code
AT SCZOpen location code
8FVH8PV5+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2015063027OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Schwaz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شفاتس”
- Aragonese: “Schwaz”
- Armenian: “Շվաց”
- Basque: “Schwaz”
- Bavarian: “Schwaz in Tirol”
- Bavarian: “Schwaz”
- Belarusian: “Швац”
- Breton: “Schwaz”
- Bulgarian: “Швац”
- Catalan: “Schwaz”
- Cebuano: “Schwaz”
- Chechen: “Швац”
- Chinese: “Schwaz”
- Chinese: “施瓦茨”
- Czech: “Schwaz”
- Danish: “Schwaz”
- Dutch: “Schwaz”
- Esperanto: “Schwaz”
- Estonian: “Schwaz”
- French: “Schwaz in Tirol”
- French: “Schwaz”
- Georgian: “შვაცი”
- German: “Schwaz in Tirol”
- German: “Schwaz”
- Hebrew: “שוואץ”
- Hungarian: “Schwaz”
- Indonesian: “Schwaz”
- Irish: “Schwaz”
- Italian: “Schwaz”
- Japanese: “シュヴァーツ”
- Kazakh: “Şvac”
- Kazakh: “Швац”
- Kazakh: “شۆاتس”
- Korean: “슈바츠”
- Korean: “슈와츠”
- Korean: “한국어”
- Ladin: “Schwaz”
- Lithuanian: “Švacas”
- Lombard: “Schwaz”
- Luxembourgish: “Schwaz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schwaz”
- Moksha: “Швац”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwaz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schwaz”
- Norwegian: “Schwaz”
- Persian: “شواتس”
- Polish: “Schwaz”
- Portuguese: “Schwaz”
- Romanian: “Schwaz”
- Russian: “Швац”
- Serbian: “Schwaz”
- Serbian: “Švac”
- Serbian: “Швац”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schwaz”
- Silesian: “Schwaz”
- Slovak: “Schwaz”
- Slovenian: “Schwaz”
- South Azerbaijani: “شواتس”
- Spanish: “Schwaz”
- Swedish: “Schwaz”
- Tatar: “Швац”
- Turkish: “Schwaz”
- Ukrainian: “Швац”
- Uzbek: “Schwaz”
- Uzbek: “Shvas”
- Uzbek: “Счwаз”
- Uzbek: “Швац”
- Venetian: “Schwaz”
- Vietnamese: “Schwaz”
- Volapük: “Schwaz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schwaz”
- “Schwaz”
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