Stams

7 MAYOR LIST Team Franz Gallop, 2 List for Stams - Hermann Schweigl, 2 Joint Stams List - Team Bernhard Paßler - GSL, 2 Pro Stams - List Peter Thaler - Pro Stams

Location of Stams in the Imst district

View from the north

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Stams is an Austrian municipality in the Imst district ( Silz judicial district ) in Tyrol with 1547 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Stams is located in the upper Inn Valley between Telfs and Imst , about 36 km west of Innsbruck . The place is at the foot of the Pirchkogel .

Neighboring municipalities of Stams are:

history

For the first time, "Stammes" is mentioned in a deed of donation from Duke Henry the Lion to Wilten Abbey, allegedly dated 1166 - although it was forged by Joseph von Hormayr before 1838 .

In 1273 the Tyrolean Count Meinhard II founded the Cistercian Abbey of Stams . Co-principleed as the burial place for the Tyrolean sovereigns , Stams advanced to become a spiritual center of the region.

Population development

parish

Parish Church of Stams

Stams is a Roman Catholic parish. Parish patron is St. John the Baptist , the pastor of Stams is called Father Michael Falkner O. Cist. The construction of the parish church in Stams is based on a wooden structure that stood here around 700 AD and a stone church from the 8th century. Only after the foundation of the monastery was today's parish church built.

Connection of the parish to the Stams monastery

Stams is an independent parish , but it is “incorporated” into the well-known Cistercian monastery in Stams, that is, the pastor of Stams is a monk from the monastery. The connection between the parish and the monastery is very close. Every Sunday a parish service is celebrated in the collegiate church, especially the solemn festivals throughout the year with a pontifical mass by the abbot of the German Erd monastery .

Dispersion of the parish area

A characteristic of the parish is the dispersal of the inhabitants. The approximately 1,100 Catholics in Stams live in the center with the parish church, monastery, Don Bosco House, numerous schools and public buildings, in the settlement in the valley floor, in the hamlets of Mähmoos, Windfang, Haslach and Thannrain, up to 4 km to the east, the mountain farms in Hauland and in the 3 km remote Staudach in the west. Holy mass is celebrated once a month in the chapel of the respective district .

Culture and sights

Stams Collegiate Church

Stams Abbey : Cistercian monastery founded in 1273
- Collegiate Church: consecrated in 1284, originally Romanesque basilica, redesigned in the High Baroque style from 1729–1733, magnificent stucco, early Baroque high altar in the form of a tree of life with 84 sculptures, around 1610
- The Austrian grave (sometimes referred to as the Princely Crypt)
- Bernhardisaal: rebuilt in 1720
Parish church of Stams : built between 1313 and 1316, is considered the first example of mature Gothic in Tyrol
Stamser Steg : suspension bridge built in 1935 over the Inn

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Via the Arlbergbahn route , Stams is connected to public transport with lines and and regional express trains between Innsbruck and Landeck-Zams .

education

Stams Abbey

Stams of the Sanctuary Locherboden above Moetz seen from

Stams is also known for the ski school and the ski trade school with an Alpine and Nordic orientation. Well-known ski jumpers like Karl Schnabl , Armin Kogler and almost all of the currently successful Austrian "Adler" got their training here.

Stams accommodates around 1,500 apprentices and students in ten different school types with the associated boarding schools, compared to only 1,300 residents in the town.

The community is important as a school center today through:

Edith Stein University of Education
Study center of the Diocese of Innsbruck
Meinhardinum Stams , grammar school and advanced grammar school with boarding school
Boarding school for skiers in Stams , upper secondary school and business school with the Brunnentalschanze
Institute for Social Pedagogy

as well as further:

Elementary school
New middle school
Commercial school
Montessori school
Music school Mittleres Oberinntal - branch in Stams

politics

The Stams municipal council consists of 13 members. The last municipal council election was on March 10, 2010. Chairman is Franz Gallop from the mayor list Team Franz Gallop. In the municipal council elections, with a turnout of 81%, the following parties won seats:

Mayor list - Team Franz Gallop 52.56% of the votes cast
List for Stams - Hermann Schweigl 22.47%
Common Stamser List 17.12%
Rural list Stams 7.85%

(For more details, see info box). The established political parties and lists play no role here.

Chairman: Franz Gallop (Mayor, List of Mayors - Team Franz Gallop)

Town twinning

Germany Kaisheim ( Bavaria , since 1978)Bavaria

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Josef Maria Köll (1928–2008), Abbot of Stams Monastery
Father Michael Falkner OCist, pastor in Stams
Alois Kluibenschädl, Mayor
Prelate HR Mag. German Erd OCist , Abbot of Stams Monastery
Herwig van Staa , Governor of Tyrol

Sons and daughters of the church

Andreas Gebhart (1881–1934), politician (TVP)
Alois Kluibenschedl (1772–1864), also Kluibenschädl or Kleubenschedl, Tyrolean freedom fighter
Hans Knapp (1935–2004), mathematician, rector of the University of Linz
Josef Maria Köll (1928–2008), Abbot of Stams Monastery
Johann Reindl (1714–1792), late baroque and rococo sculptor
Thomas Riss (1871–1959), painter
Lois Weinberger (1947–2020), visual artist

Web links

Commons : Stams - collection of images, videos and audio files

70221 - Stams. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 184–185 No. 625 (with detailed remarks) .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Stams . In: Stams . ( stams.co.at [accessed June 12, 2017]).

[1] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 184–185 No. 625 (with detailed remarks) .

[:0-2] Stams . In: Stams . ( stams.co.at [accessed June 12, 2017]).