Roasting

Roasting
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Imst
License plate :	IN THE
Surface:	7.9 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '31 "  N , 10 ° 46' 4"  E
Height :	918  m above sea level A.
Residents :	676 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	6463
Area code :	05412
Community code :	7 02 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Village 2 6463 Karrösten
Website:	www.karroesten.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Oswald Krabacher ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	7th 2 7th 2  A total of 9 seats ÖVP : 7 MfK : 2
Location of Karrösten in the Imst district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Karrösten is a municipality with 676 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Imst district ( Imst judicial district ) in the state of Tyrol ( Austria ).

Geographical location

Karrösten is located in the Oberinntal on the southwest slope of the Tschirgant , at the confluence of the Gurgltal in the Inntal . Mining was already practiced here in the Bronze Age , which flourished in the 16th century. Numerous natural disasters threatened the community. A geological trail provides information about the rock composition in this area. Since 2014 there has been a small, wooden viewing platform on the climb from Karrösten to the Karröster Alm, which blends in well with the landscape, with a view of the Imst valley basin.

Fruit and maize thrive on the slopes as well as the highest sweet chestnut in North Tyrol, which was declared a natural monument in the 1960s, at almost 1000 m above sea level. A particular noticeable feature here is the large number of hours of sunshine that the community can record. On this point, the small town ranks second in a Tyrol-wide comparison.

Districts

• Roasting
• Brennbichl
• Royal Chapel

Neighboring communities

	Tarrenz
Imst		Haiming , Roppen
	Arzl in the Pitztal	Carts

history

The area around and in Karrösten was already settled in the Bronze Age (2000 - 800 BC), as the place lies between the Fernpass and the Reschenpass and was often crossed at that time. During archaeological excavations that took place in 1972, a number of urn graves were found with some additions. At that time, a bronze rod, a handle tongue knife and a handle mandrel knife were placed in the grave . These items are estimated to be more than 3000 years old. Thus it was proven that people lived here at that time.

16 BC Chr. Who came Romans in the area stretching from the Brenonen (Illyrian Urvolk) was inhabited. However, the Romans moved on and did not establish a settlement in Karrösten . It is believed that the " Via Claudia " led through the present-day location . The discovery in 1872 of a brick tomb in which a Roman was buried has reinforced the belief that the Romans were once here. Through further analyzes and examinations at the grave one could also approximately determine the dating. A Roman coin was found showing the image of the Roman emperor Augustus who died in AD 14 . The Illyrian tribe was Romanized until the 6th century. Then the Bavarians came to the Upper Inn Valley and forced the Romans to emigrate.

The first documentary mention of Karröstens was in the year 1300. The first document mentions a "Waibel de Aeusten". In the years that followed, the place was mentioned repeatedly in various records. In 1336 the name "Kerrosten" appeared in a land register of the Stams monastery .

Since Karrösten is located east of Imst , good relations with today's district town were established very early on, because like other communities around Imst, the Karröster were subordinate to the Imst court and its parish . In 1427 the place had about 40 inhabitants.

In 1582 the name Karrösten was first mentioned in connection with the term "Gmaind and Nachperschaft".

As in almost every other municipality in Tyrol , mining played an important role in Karrösten. At the Tschirgant there were numerous pits where ore was mined. About 1000 workers were employed at that time. When there was a religious miners' uprising in 1532, more and more miners moved away, and mining stopped at the end of the 17th century. The income of the community thus fell drastically.

To date Karrösten has developed into a small place and now mainly benefits from tourism .

Church history

The mother parish of Imst was once responsible for the parish of Karrösten. Around the year 1100 there was already a wooden chapel in today's place. A little later a larger branch church was built in Karrösten , which was under the parish of Karres .

At the beginning of the 15th century, today's Nikolauskirche was consecrated by Bishop Johannes von Brixen. In 1741 the church received a way of the cross . Towards the end of the 18th century, the church was rebuilt in the Rococo style .

Only many years later did the Karrösten parish receive its own cemetery . Before that, all deceased were buried at the Karres cemetery.

In 1950 the Karrösten branch was finally raised to a parish-independent branch, which means that from then on the canonical books were administered by themselves.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Karrösten

• Königskapelle (Saxon Chapel )

Personalities

Personalities associated with the community

• Friedrich August II. (1797–1854), King of Saxony 1836–1854

Others

The municipality has been a member of the Tyrol Climate Alliance since 2004 .

Web links

Commons : Karrösten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Karrösten , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
• 70207 - Karrösten. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Karröstens. In: Chronik von Karrösten, Ortschroniken Vol. 12. Hölzl Sebastian, 1975, accessed on June 20, 2012 .