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Obsteig

municipality in Imst District, Tyrol, Austria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ693962 ↗
Source-derived summary

Obsteig is a municipality in the Imst district and is located 15 km northeast of Imst and 3 km above Mötz. The village has 14 parts and is a popular area for skiing. Main sources of income is Winter tourism.

Editorial summary

“Obsteig” enters the record as municipality in Imst District, Tyrol, Austria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Obsteig, municipality and Imst can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Obsteig, municipality and Imst.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Obsteig” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Obsteig, municipality and Imst provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q693962. VIAF identifies the subject as 241482569. Authority coordinates are 47.299, 10.928. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Obsteig”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Obsteig primary sources, Obsteig archive and Obsteig research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Obsteig”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Obsteig” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.