Imst

Imst within the Austrian kingdom Tyrol is the capital of the district of Imst and has 10,628 inhabitants. The region around Imst has been inhabited for the reason that Bronze Age. 763 Imst is first documented as in opido Humiste part of the founding system of constructed in Scharnitz by the diocese of Freising monastery church of St. Peter. The name ought to imply as much as springing out. In 1266 Meinhard II of Tyrol obtained the location from Bavarian ownership and granted Imst in 1282 the marketplace right. In 1822 there was a massive hearth catastrophe. In 1898 Imst was granted town rights.

Confronted with the misery of warfare orphans and homeless youngsters after the Second World War, Hermann Gmeiner founded the SOS Children's Villages Association in 1949 and started out building a SOS Children's Village together with friends. On April 15, 1951, after two years of creation, the world's first SOS Children's Village in Imst become opened.