Wattens is a market community in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 which is the home of the Swarovski Kristallwelten, dedicated to the history surrounding the company, the man himself Daniel Swarovski

Daniel Swarovski

Daniel Swarovski was an Austrian glass cutter and jeweller born in Bohemia. His father was a glass cutter who owned a small glass factory, and Swarovski first learned the art of glass-cutting in his father's factory...

 and exhibitions of the crystals.
It attracts visitors from the world over.
Other museums are the typewriter

Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with keys that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress, and the machine prints the characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the pieces...

 museum and the Museum Wattens. The Museum Wattens is dedicated to the history of Swarovski, Wattenspapier and of Excavation (Prehistory

Prehistory

Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

, Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...

) in Volders

Volders

Volders is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land and is located 12 km east of Innsbruck on the southern side of the Inn River. Sights are the Castles Friedberg and Aschach and the church of Saint Carl. At the entrance of the village lies the Volderer See.-External links:* Municipality...

, Wattens and Fritzens

Fritzens

Fritzens is a municipality in the district Innsbruck country in Tyrol . It lies 16 km east of Innsbruck on the left side of the Inn River. The origin of the village goes back until 6 BC.Nowadays Fritzens has an intense connection with Wattens....

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Another important factory is Wattenspapier. It was founded in 1559. The company produces today tobacco paper with 97% exported to over 90 countries.

It is the birthplace of the Jakob Gapp.

External links

• Municipality Wattens: Official website of the municipality in the Hall-Wattens region