Mariastein, Tyrol

Mariastein
Coat of arms
Mariastein Location within Austria
Location within Kufstein district
Coordinates: 47°31′31″N 12°03′13″E / 47.52528°N 12.05361°ECoordinates: 47°31′31″N 12°03′13″E / 47.52528°N 12.05361°E
Country	Austria
State	Tyrol
District	Kufstein
Government
• Mayor	Dieter Martinz
Area
• Total	2.4 km^2 (0.9 sq mi)
Elevation	575 m (1,886 ft)
Population (1 January 2014)[1]
• Total	346
• Density	140/km^2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	6324
Area code	05332
Vehicle registration	KU
Website	www.mariastein.gv.at

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,^[2] 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.

References

1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2014-01-01.
2. Chizzali. Tyrol: Impressions of Tyrol. (Innsbruck: Alpina Printers and Publishers), p. 43

External links

• Church in Marienstein (in German)