Imst

Imst was a market settlement and judicial center in Tyrol's upper Inn country. Meinhard II granted market rights in 1282, giving its inhabitants trading privileges. His son Heinrich confirmed the charter in 1312, but made elevation to town status conditional on the inhabitants financing a surrounding wall. They did not build it, and Imst retained its market status throughout the later medieval and early modern period.

Mining gave the settlement another regional function. A princely mining judge based at Imst between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mining affairs across the upper Inn valley. The municipal museum records local mining from 1446, particularly lead ore needed for silver production at Schwaz. Commercial privileges and specialized jurisdiction therefore mattered alongside the workings themselves. Near the end of this period, a major fire in 1822 destroyed much of the settlement, interrupting the development of its manufacturing and commercial center.