Schwaz

Schwaz is a metropolis inside the Austrian kingdom of Tyrol. It is the administrative center of the Schwaz district. Schwaz is positioned in the Lower Inn Valley. he vicinity around Schwaz turned into already inhabited within the Neolithic 4000 to 2000 BC and Bronze Age. The locality itself became first cited in 930 to 31 as Suates. Around 1170 built the Fruntsberger a easy residential tower at the hill above Schwaz, which they constructed in the thirteenth century to the citadel Freundsberg.

In the 14th century, the primary Inn Bridge was constructed. The village become to start with peasant person, it came after the invention of silver and copper deposits quickly in metropolitan dimensions. Already within the Bronze Age copper had been mined inside the mountains among Schwaz and Kitzbuhel, which changed into needed in reference to tin for the production of bronze. At the heyday of mining within the 15th and 16th centuries, Schwaz turned into the second biggest metropolis in the Habsburg Empire after Vienna, the largest mining town in Europe with 20,000 inhabitants.