Imst Imscht | |
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 Saint John's Church in Imst in August 2011 | |
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  Imst Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates:47°14′22″N10°44′17″E / 47.23944°N 10.73806°E /47.23944; 10.73806 | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Tyrol |
| District | Imst |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Stefan Weirather |
| Area | |
• Total | 113.39 km2 (43.78 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 827 m (2,713 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 10,504 |
| • Density | 92.636/km2 (239.93/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 6460 |
| Area code | 05412 |
| Vehicle registration | IM |
| Website | www.imst.tirol.gv.at |
Imst (German:[ɪmst]ⓘ;Southern Bavarian:Imscht) is a town in theAustrianfederal state ofTyrol. It lies on theRiver Inn in western Tyrol, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) west ofInnsbruck and at an altitude of 828 metres (2,717 feet)above sea level. With a current population (2018) of 10,504, Imst is the administrative centre ofImstDistrict.
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Licensed since 1282 to hold a regular market. Until 1918, the town (named earlier alsoJMST) was part of theAustrian monarchy (Austria side after thecompromise of 1867), head of the district of the same name, one of the 21Bezirkshauptmannschaften in theTyrol province.[3]
Imst received fulltown rights in 1898.[4]
Every four years Imst hosts their Fasnacht, or carnival beforeLent.[5] This carnival is listed byUNESCO as one of theirLists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.[5] As part of Schemenlaufen pairs of men wear bells, tuned differently, while performing dances of jumps and bows. They are accompanied by masked characters imitating their dance.[5]
In 1958, the first artificiallyrefrigeratedluge track was completed at Imst.[6] The track was 1,000.9 meters (3,284 ft) long with 17 turns and a vertical drop of 124.8 meters (409 ft), giving the track an average grade of 12.48%.[6] No turn names were given for the track.
It hosted theFIL World Luge Championships in1963 and1978[7] and it hosted theFIL European Luge Championships in1956,1971, and1974.[8]
In 1949Hermann Gmeiner founded the firstSOS Children's Village in the Sonnberg district of Imst. TheSOS-Kinderdörfer organization now runs over 450 such villages worldwide.
| Climate data for Imst (1971–2000) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) | 17.0 (62.6) | 22.0 (71.6) | 25.0 (77.0) | 33.0 (91.4) | 34.1 (93.4) | 34.6 (94.3) | 33.7 (92.7) | 30.2 (86.4) | 25.3 (77.5) | 21.0 (69.8) | 17.0 (62.6) | 34.6 (94.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.9 (35.4) | 4.8 (40.6) | 10.0 (50.0) | 13.4 (56.1) | 18.9 (66.0) | 21.3 (70.3) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.3 (73.9) | 19.4 (66.9) | 14.4 (57.9) | 6.5 (43.7) | 2.2 (36.0) | 13.3 (55.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.8 (27.0) | −1.1 (30.0) | 3.1 (37.6) | 6.6 (43.9) | 11.9 (53.4) | 14.6 (58.3) | 16.6 (61.9) | 16.1 (61.0) | 12.3 (54.1) | 7.5 (45.5) | 1.4 (34.5) | −2.0 (28.4) | 7.0 (44.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.1 (21.0) | −5.0 (23.0) | −1.5 (29.3) | 1.4 (34.5) | 6.0 (42.8) | 9.1 (48.4) | 11.1 (52.0) | 10.9 (51.6) | 7.6 (45.7) | 3.2 (37.8) | −2.0 (28.4) | −5.1 (22.8) | 2.5 (36.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.0 (−7.6) | −18.2 (−0.8) | −19.8 (−3.6) | −7.1 (19.2) | −5.4 (22.3) | 0.6 (33.1) | 3.5 (38.3) | 2.0 (35.6) | −3.3 (26.1) | −7.5 (18.5) | −19.6 (−3.3) | −21.4 (−6.5) | −22.0 (−7.6) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 45.4 (1.79) | 43.4 (1.71) | 46.3 (1.82) | 37.6 (1.48) | 63.2 (2.49) | 93.3 (3.67) | 116.6 (4.59) | 116.9 (4.60) | 69.0 (2.72) | 47.6 (1.87) | 55.6 (2.19) | 54.0 (2.13) | 788.9 (31.06) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 19.0 (7.5) | 24.0 (9.4) | 9.1 (3.6) | 1.8 (0.7) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.0 (0.0) | 0.2 (0.1) | 8.6 (3.4) | 15.6 (6.1) | 78.3 (30.8) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 7.1 | 6.2 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 10.7 | 13.5 | 13.4 | 13.8 | 9.5 | 7.3 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 114.2 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%)(at 14:00) | 67.0 | 55.3 | 44.0 | 42.0 | 42.9 | 46.7 | 48.1 | 49.9 | 51.3 | 53.8 | 64.7 | 72.3 | 53.2 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 77.9 | 112.3 | 140.8 | 138.4 | 167.3 | 167.0 | 179.1 | 185.7 | 165.2 | 145.9 | 95.0 | 78.6 | 1,653.2 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 36.5 | 47.9 | 47.4 | 43.3 | 46.3 | 44.9 | 47.9 | 53.7 | 54.4 | 52.0 | 41.5 | 43.1 | 46.6 |
| Source:Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics[9] | |||||||||||||
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