a town of the Austrian empire, in the Tyrol, on the right bank of the Inn, sixteen miles E.N.E. of Innsbruck. It has a beautiful Gothic parish church, containing some interesting monuments; also an old Franciscan convent, and a curious tower known by the name of the Mint. Schwaz was formerly celebrated for its silver mines, which were worked in the fifteenth century, in partnership, by the Emperor Maximilian and the Fuggers of Augsburg, and yielded to the latter alone 200,000 florins (about L22,000) annually. These mines are now exhausted; but iron and copper are still obtained here in abundance. Pop. 4628.