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Landesfragen › Tirol
Was ist das Stift Stams in Tirol?
- Ein protestantisches Kloster
- Ein Augustinerkloster in Innsbruck
- Ein bedeutendes Zisterzienserkloster aus dem 13. Jahrhundert im Inntal, bekannt für seine barocke Ausstattung und Skisportschule
- Ein modernes Kloster
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Stams Abbey was founded in 1273 by Count Meinhard II of Tyrol as a Cistercian monastery and burial place for the Tyrolean comital dynasty. Its interior was lavishly Baroquified in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including an extraordinary wrought-iron choir screen and gilded high altar. Since 1948 the abbey has also housed a renowned elite ski sports school whose graduates include numerous Austrian Olympic and World Cup champions.