Thun, Switzerland
1180-1190
Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland
c. 1200
Spiez, Switzerland
12th century
Thun, Switzerland
1846-1854
Büren an der Aare, Switzerland
1621-1624
Jegenstorf, Switzerland
12th century
Schwarzenburg, Switzerland
1573-1576
Aarberg, Switzerland
13th century
Münchenwiler, Switzerland
1535
Ringgenberg, Switzerland
13th century
Burgdorf, Switzerland
11th century
Nidau, Switzerland
13th century
Unterseen, Switzerland
13th century
Frutigen, Switzerland
c. 1200
La Neuveville, Switzerland
1283
Erlach, Switzerland
1090-1100
Wilderswil, Switzerland
12th century
Belp, Switzerland
1550-1554
Aarwangen, Switzerland
c. 1300
Bern, Switzerland
c. 1250
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.