Mariastein is the smallest

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in the

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district in the

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n state of

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located 4 kilometers north of

Wörgl Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is from the international border with Bavaria, Germany. Population Transport Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munich, and ...

and 11.5 kilometers southwest of

. Already a fifteenth century

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destination,Chizzali. Tyrol: Impressions of Tyrol. (Innsbruck: Alpina Printers and Publishers), p. 43 it became more popular after a local statue of Mary, which had been removed to

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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 250 stairs. It now houses multiple chapels and a museum.

References

External links

Church in Marienstein (in German)
Cities and towns in Kufstein District {{Tyrol-geo-stub