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.- 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
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
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
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, Northeast Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.345° or 47° 20′ 42″ north
Longitude
11.7084° or 11° 42′ 30″ east
Population
13,100
Elevation
537 metres (1,762 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AT SCZ
Open location code
8FVH8PV5+X9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Schwaz from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Schwaz” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሽዋዝ”
- Arabic: “شفاتس”
- Arabic: “شواز”
- Aragonese: “Schwaz”
- Armenian: “Շվաց”
- Azerbaijani: “Schwaz”
- Basque: “Schwaz”
- Bavarian: “Schwaz in Tirol”
- Bavarian: “Schwaz”
- Belarusian: “Швац”
- Bengali: “শ্বাজ”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Schwaz”
- Hebrew: “שוואץ”
- Hindi: “श्वाज़”
- Hungarian: “Schwaz”
- Indonesian: “Schwaz”
- Irish: “Schwaz”
- Italian: “Schwaz”
- Japanese: “シュヴァーツ”
- Javanese: “Schwaz”
- Kazakh: “Şvac”
- Kazakh: “Швац”
- Kazakh: “شۆاتس”
- Kirghiz: “Шваз”
- Korean: “슈바츠”
- Korean: “슈와츠”
- Korean: “한국어”
- Ladin: “Schwaz”
- Lithuanian: “Švacas”
- Lombard: “Schwaz”
- Luxembourgish: “Schwaz”
- Malay: “Schwaz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schwaz”
- Moksha: “Швац”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwaz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schwaz”
- Norwegian: “Schwaz”
- Oromo: “Schwaz”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਵਾਜ਼”
- Persian: “شواتس”
- Polish: “Schwaz”
- Portuguese: “Schwaz”
- Pushto: “شواز”
- Romanian: “Schwaz”
- Russian: “Швац”
- Serbian: “Schwaz”
- Serbian: “Švac”
- Serbian: “Швац”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Schwaz”
- Silesian: “Schwaz”
- Slovak: “Schwaz”
- Slovenian: “Schwaz”
- Somali: “Schwaz”
- South Azerbaijani: “شواتس”
- Spanish: “Schwaz”
- Swahili: “Schwaz”
- Swedish: “Schwaz”
- Tajik: “Шваз”
- Tatar: “Шваз”
- Tatar: “Швац”
- Turkish: “Schwaz”
- Ukrainian: “Швац”
- Urdu: “شواز”
- Uzbek: “Schwaz”
- Uzbek: “Shvas”
- Uzbek: “Счwаз”
- Uzbek: “Швац”
- Venetian: “Schwaz”
- Vietnamese: “Schwaz”
- Volapük: “Schwaz”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schwaz”
- “Schwaz”
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