Roppen
Encyclopedia
Roppen is a municipality
in the Imst district
and is located 5 km southeast of Imst
between the mouths of the Pitze River
and the Ötztaler Ache
. The village was mentioned in documents in 1260 for the first time as „Roupen“ but settlement already began 3000 years ago. It has 1630 inhabitants.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Imst district
Imst (district)
The Bezirk Imst is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, as well as sharing a small border with Bavaria...
and is located 5 km southeast of Imst
Imst
Imst is a city in the Austrian 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...
between the mouths of the Pitze River
Pitze River
The Pitze is a right tributary of the river Inn in the Imst and flows through the Pitztal valley. It has a length of about . It merges with the Inn east of the city of Imst at an elevation of ....
and the Ötztaler Ache
Ötztaler Ache
The Ötztaler Ache is a right tributary of the Inn River in the Imst and flows through the Ötztal valley with a length of appr. 35 km. It merges with the Inn River 8 km east of Imst. The river is one of the biggest tributaries with plenty of water...
. The village was mentioned in documents in 1260 for the first time as „Roupen“ but settlement already began 3000 years ago. It has 1630 inhabitants.