page_title: Terfens
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Terfens / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: The pilgrimage place of Maria Larch near Terfens, Tyrol Deutsch: Der Wallfahrtsort Maria Larch bei Terfens, Tirol &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 64909 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: Terfens is a municipality in the Schwaz district with 2116 inhabitants in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located about 20 km northeast of Innsbruck in the Lower Inn Valley.
context_section_description: One of Terfens' major landmarks is the Maria Larch pilgrimage church. The church was founded in 1678 in the former location of a statue of the Virgin Mary attached to a larch tree. The statue originates in 1665; it was put there because a farmer's wife prayed to the larch tree and when she told the story to a hermit called Johann Weiss, he created the clay statue. The church was renovated in 1994.
  Terfens is famous for having an upside-down house which has become a tourist attraction. It was built in 2012 by two Polish architects.
caption: The church Maria Larch
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