Mariazell - Mariazell

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Mariazell
federal stateStyria
Residents
3.813 (2018)
height
868 m
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Mariazell

Mariazell is a city in the north of the Styria, near the limit to Lower Austria and has about 2,000 inhabitants. Mariazell is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Central Europe and mainly attracts Catholics from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia. Pope John Paul II also visited Mariazell. The place combines a charming landscape with the typical atmosphere of a place of pilgrimage (souvenir kiosks, restaurants).

getting there

Map of Mariazell

With the plane

LOGM airfield - 500 m grass runway.

In the street

By car: From Vienna on the A 1 to the Sankt Pölten Süd junction and on the B 20 directly to Mariazell. Of Graz Via the A 9 to the Deutschfeistritz junction, on the S 35 to the Bruck junction and on the B 20 to Mariazell.

By train

Traveling by train is a special experience. Of St. Polten runs the "Mariazellerbahn" (http://www.mariazellerbahn.at, Mariazellerbahn), an electrified, narrow-gauge mountain railway directly to the 1 Mariazell station.

background

Mariazell is a member of the “Shrines of Europe” cooperation, the union of the six most important Marian pilgrimage centers in Europe, as well as Mariazell Altoetting, Loreto, Fatima, Czestochowa and Lourdes.

For more information, see the topic articles Christianity and Religions (Pilgrims in general).

mobility

Tourist Attractions

  • 1  Mariazell basilica, Benedictus-Platz 1. Tel.: 43 3882 25950. The basilica was built from 1330, the tower was built between 1430 and 1440. The high altar design comes from J.B. Fischer von Erlach (1693). The treasury contains valuable votive offerings from several centuries.

activities

A museum railway runs from Mariazell to the nearby Erlaufsee, which is not operated on an old, disused railway line, but on completely new tracks laid by the members of the association from 1976 to 1984. Among other things, there is a steam tramway locomotive from Vienna (built in 1884).

shop

kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

trips

A cable car leads from Mariazell to the 1270 m high Bürgeralpe, a panoramic mountain with an amusement park 1 Holzknechtland adventure world

literature

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