Entrammes, France
2nd century AD
Kistanje, Croatia
1st century BCE
Nehren, Germany
4th century AD
Kula, Bulgaria
3rd century AD
East Mani, Greece
5th century BCE
Fréjus, France
c. 50 AD
Gerolfingen, Germany
100-200 AD
Winterthur, Switzerland
around 4 BC
Tawern, Germany
1st century AD
Dellach, Austria
1st century BCE
Rome, Italy
226 AD
Montcaret, France
1st century AD
Arras, France
15 BC
Köngen, Germany
100 AD
Mezdra, Bulgaria
3rd century AD
Le Quiou, France
1st century AD
Baena, Spain
1st century BCE
Bern, Switzerland
1st century BCE
Portmán, Spain
1st century BCE
San Roque, Spain
940 BCE
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.