Kematen in Tirol is a municipality in the district
Innsbruck-Land
The Bezirk Innsbruck-Land is an administrative district ('' Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It encloses the Statutarstadt Innsbruck, and borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the district Schwaz in the east, South Tyrol in Italy to the south, and t ...
located about 12 km west of
Innsbruck. The
Melach river flows into the
Inn river in Kematen. Kematen was first mentioned as "Caminata" around 600.
Population
Geography
Kematen is located in the
Inn Valley
The Inn ( la, Aenus; rm, En) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The river is long. It is a right tributary of the Danube and it is the third largest tributary of the Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is ...
, at the confluence of the
Melach River (from the Sellrain Valley) into the
River Inn. The municipal area lies mainly on the alluvial cone of the Melach south of the Inn. The Inn and Melach rivers form the northern and western boundaries of the municipality. Here lies the geographical (less the cultural) border between the Upper Inn Valley and the Lower Inn Valley.
History
The village name Kematen probably goes back to the Latin ''caminata'', which means "heated chamber". The place is first mentioned in documents around 1143 as "Kemenatin" in records of the Dießen Abbey founded by the Counts of Dießen-Andechs. The Wilten Abbey also had property in Kematen.
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Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land District
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