Imst Old Town

Imst (Rhaeto-Roman Damaist)
The oldest traces of settlement in the area around Imst date back to the Bronze Age.
In 763, Imst was first mentioned in a document as “in opido Humiste” - part of the founding equipment of the monastery church of St. Peter 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 combined with the word formation morpheme -iste. The name can be translated as wet field, 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 name Imst finally prevailed.
In 1266, Meinhard II of Tyrol acquired the area from Bavarian ownership and granted Imst market rights in 1282. In 1822 there was a major fire disaster. In 1898 Imst received city rights.
Imst played a role during the National Socialist era when the city was the first Tyrolean municipality to make Adolf Hitler an honorary citizen in 1933, which was only revised in the 1990s. Even more recently, a street named after the “greatest Nazi poet in Tyrol”, Jakob Kopp, and the failure to rename it caused a stir and discussion.
Confronted with the misery of war orphans and homeless children after the Second World War, Hermann Gmeiner founded the SOS Children's Villages association in 1949. With friends he built the world's first children's village in Imst, which opened on April 15, 1951 after two years of construction.
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Lively customs in the Imst outdoor region
The Imst carnival dance follows strict rules, some of which have been in effect for centuries. The well-known carnival parades in Imst and Nassereith only take place every three to four years and captivate onlookers from near and far with their magical spectacle. In 2010, UNESCO even declared the Imst Schemenlaufen an intangible cultural heritage! Even in the small towns of Tarrenz and Roppen, carnival celebrations take place every four years. The Imst outdoor region shortens the “waiting time” for its visitors through numerous exciting events and cultural diversity.
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Imst is a great city, surrounded by a breathtaking mountain backdrop. A stroll through the old town with its pretty buildings, which are built in the Gothic and Baroque style, is just as worthwhile as a visit to the 2,774 meter high local mountain, the Muttekopf.