Umhausen
| Umhausen | ||
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  Umhausen Location within Austria | ||
Location in the district
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| Coordinates: 47°07′00″N 10°55′00″E / 47.11667°N 10.91667°ECoordinates: 47°07′00″N 10°55′00″E / 47.11667°N 10.91667°E | ||
| Country | Austria | |
| State | Tyrol | |
| District | Imst | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Mag. Jakob Wolf | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 137.4 km2 (53.1 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 1,031 m (3,383 ft) | |
| Population (1 January 2016)[1] | ||
| • Total | 3,174 | |
| • Density | 23/km2 (60/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 6441 | |
| Area code | 05255 | |
| Vehicle registration | IM | |
| Website | http://www.umhausen.com | |
Umhausen is a municipality in the Imst district and is located 17 km southeast of Imst at the Ötztaler Ache in the Ötztal. It has 2913 inhabitants.
Geography
The municipality consists of six villages:
- Umhausen
- Tumpen
- Köfels
- Farst
- Niederthai
- Östen
Economy
Umhausen was once a centre for cultivation of flax.
Today the main source of income is tourism. In the area of the community lies the tallest waterfall of Tyrol at 150 metres of height.
Landslide
The Köfels landslide was a gigantic landslide, known as a sturzstrom, that occurred in the Ötz valley approximately 9800±100 years ago according to radiocarbon dating of trees buried by the event.[2] It involved a 2.5 km horizontal displacement and 800 m vertical displacement of 3.2 km3 of rock and mud along the Ötz valley floor, making it the third largest known sturzstrom.[3][4]
The British rocket engineer Alan Bond linked this geological evidence to Sumerian astronomical observations and hypothesised an asteroid impact as its cause.[5]
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1869 | 1,341 | — |
| 1880 | 1,366 | +1.9% |
| 1890 | 1,186 | −13.2% |
| 1900 | 1,175 | −0.9% |
| 1910 | 1,318 | +12.2% |
| 1923 | 1,368 | +3.8% |
| 1934 | 1,485 | +8.6% |
| 1939 | 1,528 | +2.9% |
| 1951 | 1,724 | +12.8% |
| 1961 | 1,834 | +6.4% |
| 1971 | 2,050 | +11.8% |
| 1981 | 2,298 | +12.1% |
| 1991 | 2,506 | +9.1% |
| 2001 | 2,830 | +12.9% |
| 2011 | 3,078 | +8.8% |
References
- ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Umhausen.
- ↑ Ivy-Ochs S, Heuberger H, Kubik PW, Kerschner H, Bonani G, Frank M, and Schlüchter C. (1998). The age of the Köfels event — relative, 14C, and cosmogenic isotope dating of an early Holocene landslide in the central Alps (Tyrol, Austria). Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, (34):57–70.
- ↑ Sørensena, SA and Bauer, B (15 August 2003). On the dynamics of the Köfels sturzstrom. Geomorphology, 54(1–2):11–19.
- ↑ Prager C, Zangerl C, Patzelt G, and Brandner R (2008). Age distribution of fossil landslides in the Tyrol (Austria) and its surrounding areas. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 8:377–407.
- ↑ Bond, A.; Hempsell, M. (2008). A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels' Impact Event. London, UK: WritersPrintshop. ISBN 1-904623-64-6.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Umhausen. |
- Information on Umhausen (in German)