Mariastein, Tyrol
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Mariastein
| native_name =
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline = Mariastein Tirol-1.jpg
| imagesize =
| image_caption =
| image_shield = Wappen at mariastein.png
| shield_size = 80x110px
| shield_link =
| pushpin_map = Austria
| pushpin_mapsize = 270
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within Austria
| image_map = Mariastein.png
| mapsize = 260x260px
| map_alt =
| map_caption = Location within Kufstein district
| coordinates = {{coord|47|31|31|N|12|03|13|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Austria
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Tyrol
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Kufstein
| parts_type =
| parts_style = para
| p1 =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Dieter Martinz
| leader_party =
| leader_title1 =
| leader_name1 =
| area_footnotes = {{Austria population Wikidata|area_footnotes}}
| area_total_km2 = {{Austria population Wikidata|area_total_km2}}
| area_metro_km2 =
| elevation_m = 575
| elevation_max_m =
| elevation_min_m =
| population_as_of = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_as_of}}
| population_footnotes = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
| population_total = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_total}}
| population_urban =
| population_metro =
| population_note =
| population_density_km2 = auto
| established_title =
| established_date =
| timezone = CET
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset = +1
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| registration_plate = KU
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = 6324
| area_code_type = Area code
| area_code = 05332
| website = [http://www.mariastein.gv.at www.mariastein.gv.at]
| footnotes =
}}
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,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 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 250 stairs. It now houses multiple chapels and a museum.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.tirol-infos.at/kufstein/wallfahrtskirche-mariastein.html Church in Marienstein (in German)]
{{Commonscat|Mariastein, Tirol}}
{{Cities and towns in Kufstein (district)}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Cities and towns in Kufstein District
{{Tyrol-geo-stub}}