!!!Axams

Axams, Tyrol, district of Innsbruck-Land, municipality, alt. 
874 m, pop. 4,903 (1981: pop. 3676), area 22.2 km%%sup 2/%, 
winter sports centre southwest of Innsbruck; tourism (185,931 
overnight stays), especially since the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Games; 
Olympiaseilbahn cable railway, Elisabethinum (support centre for 
people with disabilities). - Performance of passion plays since 1683; 
parish church (rebuilt 1732/1734) with rich furnishings and ornamental 
stucco work; old farmsteads in the Upper Inntal Valley style; cemetery 
with subterranean St. Wilgefortis chapel (Kummernis, 1666); birthplace 
of K. Schoenherr. A Celtic settlement was excavated in the 
neighbouring town of Birgitz.

!Further reading
H. Leitner, Heimatbuch der Gemeinde Axams, 1984.


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