--- title: "Zirl – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Zirl, Austria: Zirl is a municipality and market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Nearby: Großer Solstein, Reither…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zirl" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zirl.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Zirl.01.vm.jpg" --- Market town in Tyrol, Austria # Zirl Zirl is a municipality and market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. ![Zirl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Zirl.01.vm.jpg) Zirl · Wikimedia Commons The place Zirl is a municipality and market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is known for its parish church, UNESCO-recognised Zachäussingen celebration, and history of nativity scene–making. Situated at an altitude of 622 metres above sea level, it lies approximately 10 kilometres west of Innsbruck at the edge of the Karwendel mountains. The area around the town is frequented by climbers, hikers, and cyclers. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirl), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Zirl 10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Großer Solstein The Große Solstein is a mountain, 2,541 m high, on the western corner of the Nordkette range in the Karwendel mountains near Zirl in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Its summit may be ascended on various mountain tour routes either from the Solsteinhaus or from the New Magdeburg Hut. 6 km · mountain in Tyrol, Autria · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fer_Solstein) 2. Reither Spitze The Reither Spitze is a mountain in the Karwendel in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol that, thanks to its location at the southwestern end of the Erlspitze Group, is particularly well known for its great views of the surrounding area from its summit. Its name is derived the village of Reith bei Seefeld, which lies at its southwestern foot. 5.5 km · mountain in the Karwendel in Tyrol · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reither_Spitze) 3. Freiungspitzen The Freiungspitzen are a group of 3 peaks in the Erlspitze Group in the Karwendel Alps on the territory of the Austrian municipality of Zirl. The highest summit, the west top, has a height of 2,332 m, the middle top is 2,322 m and the east top is 2,302 m. 5 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiungspitzen) 4. Zirler Berg The Zirler Berg near Zirl in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol is a mountain, 1,057 m high, in the Karwendel Alps, a western part of the Northern Limestone Alps. It is a southern foothill of the Reither Spitze and is known mainly because the Seefelder Straße on its southern slopes climbs through 388 metres in a distance of less than 4 kilometres from Zirl in the Inn valley to Leithen on the Seefeld Plateau. 1.8 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirler_Berg) 5. Erlspitze Group The Erlspitze Group, also called the Seefeld Group, is the southwesternmost side range of the Austrian part of the Karwendel mountains in the Alps. It forms a horseshoe-shaped highland around the valley of Eppzirler Tal and is joined in the south to the Nordkette by the Erl Saddle near Solsteinhaus. 4.9 km · mountain range · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlspitze_Group) 6. Kuhljochspitze The Kuhljochspitze is a mountain, 2,297 m high, in the Erlspitze Group in the Karwendel Alps in Austria. 5.1 km · mountain in Austria · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhljochspitze) 7. Härmelekopf The Härmelekopf is a mountain northeast of Seefeld in Tirol in the Karwendel Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is 2,224 metres high. 6 km · mountain in Austria · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4rmelekopf) 8. Solsteinhaus The Solsteinhaus is an Alpine Club hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club located at a height of 1,806 m on the Erl Saddle between the mountains of the Nordkette and Erlspitze Group. It was opened in 1914 and totally renovated in 2007. 5.2 km · Austrian mountain hut · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solsteinhaus) 9. Rauenkopf The Rauenkopf, also Rauchenkopf, is a mountain northeast of Reith bei Seefeld in the Karwendel Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is 2,011 metres high. 4 km · mountain in the Karwendel in Tyrol · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauenkopf) 10. Nördlinger Hut The Nördlinger Hut is an Alpine Club hut belonging to the German Alpine Club that is situated at a height of 2,238 m south of the summit of the Reither Spitze in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is thus the highest refuge hut in the entire Karwendel range. 5.2 km · building in Tyrol, Austria · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Hut) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Zirl **Airports:** Innsbruck (INN), 8 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 109 km · Munich (MUC), 127 km\ - Salzburg → Zirl 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €20–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/salzburg-to-zirl) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Salzburg&to=Zirl) - Linz → Zirl 255 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €33–46 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/linz-to-zirl) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Linz&to=Zirl) - Klagenfurt am Wörthersee → Zirl 244 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · €40–55 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/klagenfurt-am-worthersee-to-zirl) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Klagenfurt+am+W%C3%B6rthersee&to=Zirl) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Zirl) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Zirl Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Zirl. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are also charter flights to several German cities - especially in winter. From [Wikivoyage: Innsbruck](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Innsbruck), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 301 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 370 km 3. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 615 km 4. [Korčula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/korcula) HR 9 ways of moving, 33 sources 666 km 5. [Mljet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mljet) HR 9 ways of moving, 28 sources 705 km If you know how people move in Zirl – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Czirl&title=Zirl&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fzirl), and the note gets an entry. 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