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MARIAZELL

Volume 14 · 81 words · 1860 Edition

or ZELL, a market-town of Styria, circle of Bruck, is situated in the midst of mountainous and picturesque scenery, near the confines of Austria, about 55 miles S.W. of Vienna. It is only remarkable for a shrine of the Virgin, which every year attracts about one hundred thousand pilgrims. The town is meanly built, and contains about one hundred and twenty houses, of which forty-four are inns for the accommodation of pilgrims. Near the town are extensive iron-works. Pop. about 900.