Dresden, Germany
c. 1200
Rathen, Germany
13th century
Leipzig, Germany
1670
Königstein, Germany
13th century
Meißen, Germany
10th century
Augustusburg, Germany
1568-1572
Pillnitz, Germany
1720
Colditz, Germany
c. 1158
Moritzburg, Germany
1542
Freiberg, Germany
1168/1566
Stolpen, Germany
c. 1100
Kriebstein, Germany
1384
Lichtenwalde, Germany
1722-1730
Pirna, Germany
1460
Dresden, Germany
1854
Rochlitz, Germany
10th century AD
Torgau, Germany
10th century
Oybin, Germany
13th century
Bautzen, Germany
16th century
Schwarzenberg, Germany
12th century
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.