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Schwaz is a district capital with 13,883 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2022) in the state of Tyrol in Austria. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Schwaz. The district capital Schwaz is located in the middle Lower Inn Valley about 30 km east of the provincial capital Innsbruck at the foot of the Kellerjoch (local mountain and lookout mountain, 2344 m) and the Eiblschrofen. 

Culture and sights

    Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: the town parish church, a four-nave hall church built in 1460, was expanded in 1502 and is now the largest hall church in Tyrol. On the left sat the citizens, on the right, separated by a wooden wall, the squires. A special feature of this church are the two bell towers, one of which is about 400 years younger. It was built in 1911, after the older one had a critical slope in the upper third and there was a danger of collapse when ringing.
    Parish Church of St. Barbara (1984/85)
    The Franciscan monastery of Schwaz with its worth seeing cloister with Gothic wall paintings was consecrated in 1515.
    The Episcopal Gymnasium Paulinum grew out of a grammar school founded in Brixen in the 19th century and was reestablished in Schwaz in 1926 due to repression there by fascist Italy.

Fugger House
Freundsberg Castle around 1900
Enzenberg Palace
Museum of the peoples

    Freundsberg Castle of the Lords of Frundsberg on a hill 170 meters above the city. The tower of the castle houses the museum of the city of Schwaz. It shows, among other things, the development of the city and mining in Schwaz. The Fruntspergfähnlein meets monthly in the Knights' Hall.
    The Fuggerhaus was built around 1525 as the residence of the Augsburg trading family. Anton Fugger ran his empire from here for a time. Today the house is the seat of the Tertiary School Sisters.
    The Handelshaus is a late Gothic burgher house built in 1500-1509 by the two tradesmen Hans and Jörg Stöckl. The large building includes a three-story arcaded courtyard and today serves as the town hall.
    Franz-Josef-Strasse forms the former main street and is now a pedestrian zone. It appears as a closed street despite the fire of 1809. At the end of the street is the baroqueized Palais Tannenberg-Enzenberg.
    The Museum of Peoples displays art objects from distant cultures and ethnographic items from Africa and Asia.
    The Schwaz silver mine is located at the eastern end of the town. The Sigismund-Fürstelauf Erbstollen, opened in 1491, was made accessible to visitors in 1989/90. A mine train travels 800 meters into the tunnel.
    The Zeiss Planetarium Schwaz is a very modern small planetarium. Since 2001, it has been providing visitors with knowledge about the starry world. In 2006, it received FullDome technology to show modern 3D films.