Country Austria District Kufstein Vehicle registration KU Elevation 575 m Population 306 (1 Apr 2009) Postal code 6324 | State Tyrol Time zone CET (UTC+1) Website www.mariastein.gv.at Area 240 ha Local time Sunday 9:47 PM Area code 05332 | |
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Mariastein is the smallest municipality in the Kufstein district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 4 kilometers north of Wörgl and 11.5 kilometers southwest of Kufstein. Already a fifteenth century pilgrimage destination, it became more so after a local statue of Mary, which had been removed to Bavaria in the late seventeenth century was said to have returned to the church in Mariastein on its own. At the center of the community is a 42-metre-tall Wohnturm, a castle built in the fourteenth century atop a rock outcropping, and which contains 150 stairs. It is now a museum.
Map of Mariastein, Austria
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Mariastein, Tyrol Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA