Tourist attraction
Höttinger Bild
Forest pilgrimage chapel built around a copper print of Mary nailed to a larch tree by a hopeful student.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Höttinger Bild, the pilgrimage chapel above Innsbruck in the forest over Hötting, follows two moments in its history: the seventeenth-century student who nailed a small image of Mary to a larch tree here to help him pass his exams, and the eighteenth-century emperor who later ordered the chapel he inspired shut down for good. A small shrine mattered to two very different people, a century apart, for opposite reasons. Best heard on the walk up through the woods from Hötting.
This audio guide was created using AI.