Schönwies is a municipality in the district of

Landeck Landeck () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck. Geography Landeck is located in the Tyrolean Oberland in the west of the state at an elevation of about . The town is situated in the valley of the Inn Ri ...

in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

located 8 km northeast of the city of

and 7 km west of the city of

Imst Imst (; Southern Bavarian: ''Imscht'') is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of above sea level. With a current population (2013) of 9,552, Imst ...

. The main source of income is the mining of

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

ballast stone. The highest point in the municipality is the

Große Schlenkerspitze The Große Schlenkerspitze is a mountain in the Lechtal Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. At or, according to other sources, 2,831 m, it is the highest peak in the eastern part of the Lechtal Alps. Summit block The massif of the Schlenk ...

(2,827 m) which is also the highest mountain in the eastern

Lechtal Alps The Lechtal Alps (german: Lechtaler Alpen) are a mountain-range in western Austria, and part of the greater Northern Limestone Alps range. Named for the river Lech which drains them north-ward into Germany, the Lechtal Alps occupy the Austrian stat ...

Gallery

File:Schönwies, Pfarrkirche Sankt Michael Dm90555 foto4 2012-08-14 14.40.jpg, Schönwies, church: Pfarrkirche Sankt Michael File:Schönwies, kapel foto5 2012-08-14 14.48.jpg, Schönwies, chapel File:Bij Grieshaus, beek foto8 2014-07-24 10.39.jpg, near Starkenbach, creek File:Starkenbach, Kapelle Sankt Laurentius und Heilige Kreuz Dm90571 plaatsen foto4 2014-07-24 10.44.jpg, Starkenbach, chapel: Kapelle Sankt Laurentius und Heilige Kreuz File:Grieshaus, dorpszicht foto4 2014-07-24 10.59.jpg, Grieshaus, view to the village

References

Lechtal Alps Cities and towns in Landeck District {{Tyrol-geo-stub