Stams is a municipality in Imst District , in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It is chiefly known for Cistercian Stams Abbey ( Stift Stams ), founded in 1273 by Count Meinhard II of Gorizia-Tyrol and his wife.
15-475: Stams is located on the southern shore of the Inn River about 18.50 km (11.50 mi) east of Imst , 7 km (4.3 mi) west of Telfs and 46 km (29 mi) west of the state capital Innsbruck . The village contains Stams has 1300 inhabitants who are living in different parts of the village – called Thannrain, Windfang, Staudach, Haslach, Maehmoos und Hauland. Archaeological findings indicate
30-698: A church already existed at the site about 700 AD. The locality of Stammes in the Duchy of Bavaria was first mentioned in a 1063 deed, it became a possession of the Counts of Tyrol . The Meinhardiner count Meinhard II of Gorizia, sole ruler of Tyrol from 1271, established a proprietary monastery together with his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria , widow of the Hohenstaufen king Conrad IV of Germany . The first Cistercian monks descended from Kaisheim in Swabia , itself
45-581: A document of 1338, the river was named Wasser (German for water). The first written mention from the years 105 to 109 (Publii Corneli Taciti historiarium liber tertius) reads: " ... Sextilius Felix... ad occupandam ripam Aeni fluminis, quod Raetos Noricosque interfluit, missus... " ("... Sextilius Felix was sent to capture the banks of the Inn, which flows between the Rhaetian people and the Noric people.") The river
60-623: A filial of Morimond Abbey ; they were enfeoffed with extended estates in Silz , Meran and Mals and soon evolved to a spiritual centre of the region. It became the burial place not only of Count Meinhard and his consort, but also of his son Duke Henry of Carinthia , of the Habsburg duke Frederick IV of Austria and his wife Anna of Brunswick, of his son Archduke Sigismund of Austria and his wife Eleanor of Scotland , as well as of Bianca Maria Sforza , second wife of Emperor Maximilian I . During
75-680: Is a right tributary of the Danube , being the third largest tributary of the Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina at 4,049 m (13,284 ft). The Engadine , the valley of the En, is the only Swiss valley whose waters end up in the Black Sea (via the Danube). The name Inn is derived from the old Celtic words en and enios , meaning water . In
90-541: Is also mentioned by other authors of the Roman Empire as Ainos (Greek) or Aenus (Latin). In medieval Latin it was written as Enus or Oenus . The change in the old Bavarian language from e to i turned Enus to In . Until the 17th century, it was written like this or Yn , but also Ihn or Yhn . The double-n appeared only in the 16th century, for example in the Tyrolian Landreim of 1557, and since
105-515: Is enlarged by two major tributaries, the Alz and the Salzach . From here to the Danube , it forms the border between Germany (Bavaria) and Austria ( Upper Austria ). Towns on this last section of the river are Marktl am Inn , Simbach on Inn , Braunau am Inn and Schärding . In Passau the Inn finally enters the Danube (as does the river Ilz there). Although the Inn has a greater average flow than
120-742: The Skigymnasium Stams (Stams ski boarding school), the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule – Edith Stein school of education , and the Meinhardinum gymnasium . The abbey church was elevated to the rank of a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1984. Stams is twinned with: Inn (river) The Inn ( Latin : Aenus ; Romansh : En ) is a river in Switzerland , Austria and Germany . The 518 km (322 mi) long river
135-487: The 16th-century Protestant Reformation and German Peasants' War the monastic community decayed. In the course of the 1552 rebellion against Emperor Charles V , the premises were plundered by the troops of Elector Maurice of Saxony ; even the grave of Maurice' brother Severinus was destroyed. The monastery was largely rebuilt in its present-day Baroque style from the early 17th century onwards, including Wessobrunner stuccowork by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer . Stams Abbey
150-513: The 18th century this spelling and pronunciation with a short vowel has been customary. The mentions in Roman times refer to the lower course. The Tyrolean section was first called Aenus by Venantius Fortunatus in the 6th century. The name Engadin and the Romansh name En indicate that the upper reaches of the river have always been called this way. Even though it was occasionally believed that
165-638: The Danube when they converge in Passau, and its watershed contains the Piz Bernina, the highest point in the Danube watershed, the Inn is considered a tributary of the Danube, which has a greater length, drains a larger surface area, and has a more consistent flow. The Inn is the only river originating in Switzerland that ends in the Black Sea (via the Danube). The average discharge at the mouth of
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#1732781159851180-543: The Inn flows through the largest lakes on its course, Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana . It runs north-eastwards, entering Austria, and from Landeck eastwards through the Austrian state of Tyrol and its capital, Innsbruck ( bridge over the Inn ), and crosses the border into Bavaria near Kufstein . On Bavarian territory the river runs northwards and passes Rosenheim , Wasserburg am Inn , and Waldkraiburg ; then it turns east, runs through Mühldorf and Neuötting and
195-482: The Inn is 735 m /s (26,000 cu ft/s). On 3 June 2013 the discharge of the Inn in Passau reached 6,820 m /s (241,000 cu ft/s) and the water levels reached 12.85 m (42.2 ft), the highest recorded historic flood level since 1501. The historic centre of Passau, where the Danube , Inn and Ilz converge, was flooded severely. Currently, there are 24 hydroelectric power plants on
210-823: The Inn originated near the Adige at the Reschen Pass , since the 16th century at the latest the origin has been seen uniformly in the area of the lakes at the Maloja Pass . A connection may exist between the name Inn and the name of the French river Ain . The source of the Inn is located in the Swiss Alps , west of St. Moritz in the Engadine region, which is named after the river ( Romansh Engiadina ; Latin vallis Eniatina ). Shortly after it leaves its source,
225-699: Was temporarily dissolved in 1807 by order of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria , who had received the Tyrolean lands by the 1805 Peace of Pressburg but re-established after Stams was restored to the Austrian Empire in 1816. Again disseized by the Nazi German authorities upon the Austrian Anschluss in 1938, it was resettled by Cistercian monks after the end of World War II , who established several educational institutions, including
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