Baden, Switzerland
10th century
Baden, Switzerland
12th century
Lenzburg, Switzerland
c. 1100
Laufenburg, Switzerland
12th century
Aarau, Switzerland
c. 1200
Seengen, Switzerland
12th century
Wildegg, Switzerland
13th century
Habsburg, Switzerland
1020-1030
Thalheim, Switzerland
13th century
Aarburg, Switzerland
c. 1200
Oftringen, Switzerland
c. 1200
Böttstein, Switzerland
12th century
Biberstein, Switzerland
13th century
Beinwil (Freiamt), Switzerland
1700
Klingnau, Switzerland
1240
Veltheim, Switzerland
14th century
Brugg, Switzerland
10th century
Untersiggenthal, Switzerland
1240
Gränichen, Switzerland
13th century
Seengen, Switzerland
1625
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.