Wattens

Wattens is a marketplace city of the Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian nation of Tyrol. It is chiefly called home of the Swarovski crystal glass corporation. Archaeological agreement lines date again to the La Tène era; the call Wattens turned into first cited as Vuattanes in a 930 deed, when the vicinity was part of the German stem duchy of Bavaria. The location changed into held through the Counts of Tyrol from the twelfth century onwards and acquired by using the Austrian House of Habsburg in 1363.

In 1559 a paper mill was hooked up at Wattens, the first within the Austrian lands. The nearby economic system changed into further promoted, when in 1895 Daniel Swarovski 1862 to 1956, a tumbler cutter from Jiretin pod Bukovou in Bohemia, settled here to begin the manufacturing of crystal earrings. Wattens acquired market rights in 1895. Archaeological settlement lines date back to the La Tene generation; the call Wattens turned into first referred to as Vuattanes in a 930 deed, when the place was part of the German stem duchy of Bavaria.