!!!Zams

Zams, Tyrol, municipality in the district of Landeck, alt. 767 m, 
pop. 3,317, area 125.03 km%%sup 2/%, in the Upper Inn Valley, 
opposite the mouth of the Zammer Loch, east of Landeck. - Nurses' 
home; family counselling centre; mother house of the Sisters of Mercy 
with hospital, Oberstufen-Realgymnasium secondary school, federal 
training institute for kindergarten teachers and hostel for female 
students; Zams power station, Venetbahnen cableways; predominant 
service sector (personal, social and public services, trade), 
large-size installation enterprise, building industry, great variety 
of small and medium-sized enterprises, bi-seasonal tourism (100,576 
overnight stays in 1992). - Neo-Baroque parish church (documented 
mention in 1271, rebuilt after a fire in 1911, consecrated 1913) with 
Baroque high altar (18%%sup th/%  century), free-standing church 
tower; monastery church (1872-1877) of the Sisters of Mercy, 
redecorated in 1959; church of ease (consecrated in 1713) in the 
hamlet of Falterschein; Mariahilf pilgrimage church (1711-1714) in the 
hamlet of Kronburg, ruins of Kronburg Castle (built after 1380, in 
decay since about 1848) situated on a high mountain cone east of Zams; 
hospital (built in New Objectivity style, 1930-1934).

!Literature
P. Woergoetter, Chronik von Zams, 1976; H. Arnold-Oettl, 
Zams, 1991.


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