Terfens

Terfens is a municipality in the Schwaz district with 2116 inhabitants in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

[6] Neighbourghing municipalities of Terfens are Weer, Kolsass, Weerberg, Pill, Fritzens and Kolsassberg.

[8] In autumn it is custom to do an Almabtrieb from Engalm via Lamsenjoch and the streets of Vomp to Terfens, that means the cows from the Alm are brought with traditional flower decoration on their heads to the village.

The church was founded in 1678 in the former location of a statue of the Virgin Mary attached to a larch tree.

[12] The spouses Paul Unterkircher and Karola Unterkircher, who committed bomb attacks in South Tyrol (Pfunderer Buam or Ein Tirol) with the goal of having South Tyrol become a part of Austria again instead of remaining Italian[13] lived in Terfens.

Grasausläuten in Terfens in the 1930s
The church Maria Larch
Upside-down house in Terfens