!!!Wattens

Wattens, Tirol, market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land, alt. 
564 m, pop. 6,804, area 10.84 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
in the Lower Inn Valley, at the south foot of Karwendel Mountains. - 
Regional health and social insurance agency, chamber of labour, 
vocational training institute (BFI) with re-training centre, 
Pater-Jakob-Gapp-Haus and youth centres, social centre of the chamber 
of labour, multi-purpose hall, Wattens museum (with archaeological 
finds from the burial ground at  Volders), adult education centre, 
stadium, two transformer stations, power station (municipality of 
Kolsass) and waterworks, Wattener Lizum military training area in the 
vicinity; 5,327 people employed (1991), around 79 % of whom in 
the production sector: cut glass works ( Swarovski & Co), paper 
factory; building and construction industry, tourism (33,525 overnight 
stays in 1992). - Documented mention in 930, foundation of the oldest 
paper mill in northern Tirol in 1559, economic upswing driven by the 
Swarovski works in the early 20%%sup th/%  century; old parish church 
(documented mention in 1318, classicistic reconstruction 1810/11) with 
late-Gothic portal and late-Rococo altars; new parish church 
(consecrated in 1958); Protestant Church of Christ (1975-1977); 1995 
Swarovski-Kristallwelten by C. Wiederin and A.  Heller.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Wattens (ed.), Marktgemeinde Wattens. 
Festschrift zur Markterhebung 1985; H. Auer, Wattens - von der 
Agrargemeinde zum Arbeiterdorf, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1988; F. 
Froehlich (ed.), 100 Jahre Pfarre Wattens 1891-1991, 1991.


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