Imst

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Borough
Imst
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Imst coat of arms
Imst (Austria)
Imst
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Tyrol
Political District : Imst
License plate : IN THE
Surface: 113.34 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '22 "  N , 10 ° 44' 17"  E
Height : 827  m above sea level A.
Residents : 10,765 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 6460
Area code : 05412
Community code : 7 02 03
NUTS region AT334
UN / LOCODE AT IMS
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 9
6460 Imst
Website: www.imst.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Stefan Weirather (All for Imst)
Municipal Council : (2016)
(19 members)
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A total of 19 seats
  • AfI : 7
  • VfI : 3
  • FPÖ : 2
  • IFI : 2
  • GREEN : 1
  • SAfI : 1
  • Li2000 : 1
  • GfuI : 1
  • PROIMST : 1
Location of Imst in the Imst district
Arzl im Pitztal Haiming Imst Imsterberg Jerzens Karres Karrösten Längenfeld Mieming Mils bei Imst Mötz Nassereith Obsteig Oetz Rietz Roppen St. Leonhard im Pitztal Sautens Silz Sölden Stams Tarrenz Umhausen Wenns Tirol (Bundesland)Location of the municipality of Imst in the Imst district (clickable map)
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Imst seen from the south
Imst seen from the south
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria
Postcard from 1903 after a painting by Michael Zeno Diemer
Imst seen from the Vorderen Platteinspitze (2565 m)
Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt
Convent of the Sisters of Mercy
The savings bank building in Imst
Rafting Imster Gorge
For the construction of the Arlbergbahn a deep cut had to be made near Imst

Imst ( Rhaeto-Romanic Damaist ? / I ) in the Austrian state of Tyrol is the capital of the Imst district ( Imst judicial district ) and has 10,765 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). Audio file / audio sample

geography

Imst lies at 828 m above sea level in the Oberinntal , on the edge of the Lechtal Alps . The local mountain is the 2774 m high Muttekopf . The Inn forms the southern boundary of the municipality .

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Imst
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.2 4.9 10.1 14.3 19.5 22.2 24.2 23.4 19.2 14.6 6.9 2.4 O 13.7
Min. Temperature (° C) -5.7 -5.0 -1.3 1.9 6.5 9.6 11.5 11.4 8.0 4.0 -1.2 -4.5 O 3
Temperature (° C) -2.5 -1.1 3.2 7.1 12.3 15.2 17.0 16.3 12.4 7.9 2.0 -1.6 O 7.4
Precipitation ( mm ) 47 44 50 37 65 93 117 125 66 48 50 51 Σ 793
Humidity ( % ) 65.9 55.8 45.6 42.9 43.9 47.1 49.2 52.3 53.8 56.4 66.6 72.9 O 54.4
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City structure

The Imster differentiate between Upper Town and Lower Town . Other parts of Imst are Auf Arzill, Brennbichl , Gunglgrün, Am Grettert, Sonnberg, Weinberg, Hoch-Imst and Teilwiesen .

Neighboring communities

Pfafflar (all district Reutte ) Namlos
( Reutte district )


Tarrenz
Gramais
( Reutte district ) 		Neighboring communities
Zams (both district Landeck ) Roasting
 

history

The area around Imst has been populated since the Bronze Age. In 763 Imst was first mentioned in a document as "in oppido Humiste" - part of the founding equipment of the St. Peter monastery church built in Scharnitz by the diocese of Freising . The name is said to go back to an early form of the Latin humidus (moist), which was connected with the word formation morphem -iste . The name can be translated as Nassfeld, damp ground . The genesis of the toponym : 1120 as "Uemeste", 1143 as "Umiste", 1278 as "Umeste", 1296 as "Ümst". In the late Middle Ages, the sound Imst finally prevailed.

In 1266 Meinhard II of Tyrol acquired the area from Bavarian ownership and in 1282 granted Imst market rights. In 1822 there was a great fire disaster. In 1898 Imst was granted city rights.

Confronted with the misery of war orphans and homeless children after the Second World War , Hermann Gmeiner founded the SOS Children's Village Association in 1949 and began building an SOS Children's Village together with friends. On April 15, 1951, after two years of construction, the world's first SOS Children's Village was opened in Imst.

Population development


mayor

  • until 2008 Gerhard Reheis (SPÖ)
  • 2008–2010 Gebhard Mantl (ÖVP)
  • since 2010 Stefan Weirather (all for Imst)

Culture and sights

  • Old town: The appearance of Imst is characterized by town houses from the Gothic to the Baroque and is today strongly urban and influenced by tourism.
  • The Catholic parish church in Imst was built from 1462 to 1493 as a late Gothic hall church by the Imst Bauhütte . The interior was redesigned in Baroque style in 1780 and re- vaulted after a fire in 1822 and reconstructed in Gothic style around 1908.
  • Capuchin monastery Imst
  • Convent of the Sisters of Mercy Imst
  • Museum im Ballhaus : The Museum im Ballhaus documents the city's history. It is located in a building from the 16th century.
  • Wells: The supply of the city with drinking and industrial water was originally limited to public wells. Over 35 drinking fountains shape the image of the city ("Brunnenstadt Imst"). 18 of them are historical wells, mostly dedicated to saints, which have been carefully renovated. These wells served not only the citizens, but also the numerous livestock. The fountains are particularly beautifully decorated during the two large processions (Corpus Christi and Assumption).
  • Rofenstein mansion , courthouse from the 13th century, today the official building of the district administration of Imst.
  • The Bundesrealgymnasium Imst , built from 1970 to 1973, was placed under monument protection as a model school for prefabrication in school construction.
  • Agricultural State College Imst
  • Imster Artclub: In the cultural scene, the Imster Artclub repeatedly sets accents with large concerts and festivals (such as the Rolling Stones or Velvet Revolver ).
  • Imst is the hometown of many visual artists.
  • The city is home to two theater associations.
  • For a time, the playwright and filmmaker Hans Hömberg lived and worked in Imst.
  • Imst Schemenlaufen : The Imster Fasnacht, the Schemenlaufen, was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012. The old Widum, a desolate Baroque building, became the House of Carnival with archive and Carnival Museum after painstaking and careful work. The cooperation with the two other large carnival varieties in the Oberland, Telfs and Nassereith , was intensified. In addition to the “big carnival”, the Buabefasnacht , the small edition of the Schemenlaufens, takes place every three to five years . Around 340 enthusiastic “boys” from 6 to 16 years of age attended the Buabefasnacht 2014.

sport and freetime

traffic

Imst was already a traffic junction on the Via Claudia Augusta in Roman times . It led from Imst over today's Fernpass into Ausserfern . There are also two connection points to the A12 Inntal motorway . From Imst, a pass road leads over the Hahntennjoch to Elmen in the Lech Valley , which is particularly popular with motorcyclists.

The Imst-Pitztal train station of the Arlbergbahn is located in the Imst Gorge . Although it is a rather small station, it is served by express trains of the ÖBB. This makes the station an important transport hub for the entire region.

economy

The industrial history was particularly shaped by mining in the 15th and 16th centuries, and in the 18th and 19th centuries by the textile industry . At this time the bird traders from Imst sold their breeding songbirds all over Europe. The composer Carl Zeller wrote the operetta The Bird Dealer . Agriculture has lost its importance, and a mixed economic structure consisting of industry, trade, crafts and tourism has emerged. In addition to the city center, numerous specialist stores and industrial companies have set up shop in Imster Au.

In summer tourism, Imst is a center for outdoor sports such as climbing, rafting and canyoning .

Sons and daughters of the township

Imst seen from the weather cross. Southeast viewing direction.

Web links

Commons : Imst  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Imst  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch. II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Ed .: Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft mb H. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 25-27, No. 45 .
  2. ^ Steinhauser, Walter: Imst in Tirol . In: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (Hrsg.): Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum . tape 54 , p. 235-238 ( regesta-imperii.de ).
  3. ↑ Good prospects high above Imst. In: imster-bergbahnen.at. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .