!!!Pöstlingberg

Poestlingberg Mountain, Upper Austria, alt. 539 m, local 
mountain of Linz and popular destination for day-trips above the left 
bank of the River Danube in the district of Urfahr, affording an 
admirable view of the area; many recreational opportunities, grotto 
railway (built in 1906, underground track with fairy-tale figures, 
deer enclosure in former moat) and Poestlingberg-Bahn railway 
(steepest adhesion railway in the world, built in 1897/98; the line 
ends at the tower of an outer fort built between 1831 and 1837); 
conservation area; place of pilgrimage since 1720; Baroque pilgrimage 
church (1738-1774), pyramidal tower roofs by R. Jeblinger (1891/1892), 
ceiling frescoes (around 1900) by A. Groll. One tower collapsed after 
a fire and was rebuilt in 1963.


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