Nyköping, Sweden
600 AD
Vårgårda, Sweden
1500 BC
Gålrum, Sweden
1500 BC - 100 AD
Kristinehamn, Sweden
500 AD
Ekerö, Sweden
200 AD
Tidan, Sweden
500 - 1000 AD
Arboga, Sweden
400-550 AD
Hemse, Sweden
1500-1000 BC
Slite, Sweden
1100-500 BC
Smålandsstenar, Sweden
500 - 300 BC
Nyköping, Sweden
1800-400 BC
Blomsholm, Sweden
400 - 600 AD
Mörbylånga, Sweden
800-1000 AD
Halmstad, Sweden
0 - 400 AD
Nyköping, Sweden
11th century
Lysekil, Sweden
1000 - 500 BC
Uppsala, Sweden
500-1100 AD
Rolfstorp, Sweden
400 BC - AD 500
Örbyhus, Sweden
500-600 AD
Sparlösa, Sweden
c. 800 AD
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.