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Imst is a Municipality and town in the Austria n Federal State of Tyrol . It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some 55 km west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of 828 m above sea-level. With a current population (2006) of around 9,200, Imst is the administrative centre of Imst District . HISTORY Licensed since 1282 to hold a regular market, Imst received full Town Rights in 1898 . 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. EXTERNAL LINKS
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