Absam

Absam is a municipality in the Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol located at an altitude of 632 m, which had an area of 51.92 km² and 6,776 inhabitants as January 2015. The starting place of a prehistoric settlement in Absam is not certain, even though a disk pommel of a sword and a brooch of copper were discovered there courting to 1500 BC. Traces of Roman settlements have not been discovered, a coin courting from the time of Diocletian has been found, although the Romans had conquered the Tyrol in 15 AD.

The vicinity names had been of the Roman period, together with Abazanes, which became Absam. Abazanes turned into noted for the first time in 995, in a file saved within the records of the Diocese of Brixen; at that time the Bishop of Augsburg turned into the owner of maximum of the land within the vicinity, which was administered by way of the Maierhof. The village, in 1282, belonged to the parish of Thaur that protected the complete location.