Country Austria District Imst Area code 05412 Elevation 827 m Local time Saturday 2:31 PM | State Tyrol Time zone CET (UTC+1) Vehicle registration IM Population 9,490 (1 Apr 2009) Postal code 6460 | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind NE at 8 km/h, 31% Humidity | ||
Imst alpine coaster high speed pursuit
Imst is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of 828 metres (2,717 feet) above sea level. With a current population (2013) of 9,552, Imst is the administrative centre of Imst District.
Contents
- Imst alpine coaster high speed pursuit
- Map of Imst Austria
- Longest alpine coaster in imst austria
- History
- Luge track
- SOS Childrens Village
- Sons and daughters of the town
- References
Map of Imst, Austria
Longest alpine coaster in imst austria
History
Licensed since 1282 to hold a regular market. Until 1918, the town (named earlier also JMST) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after the compromise of 1867), head of the district of the same name, one of the 21 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in the Tyrol province.
Imst received full town rights in 1898.
Luge track
In 1958, the first artificially refrigerated track was completed at Imst. The track was 1000.9 meters long with 17 turns and a vertical drop of 124.8 meters, giving the track an average grade of 12.48%. No turn names were given for the track.
It hosted the FIL World Luge Championships in 1963 and 1978 and it hosted the FIL European Luge Championships in 1956, 1971, and 1974.
SOS Children's Village
In 1949 Hermann Gmeiner founded the first SOS Children's Village in the Sonnberg district of Imst. The SOS-Kinderdörfer organization now runs over 450 such villages worldwide.