Rathen, Germany
11th century
Zschopau, Germany
12th century
Müglitztal, Germany
c. 1200
Rammenau, Germany
1721-1735
Lunzenau, Germany
1470-1548
Gnandstein, Germany
13th century
Scharfenstein, Germany
1250
Reichenbach im Vogtland, Germany
13th century
Wurzen, Germany
1491-1497
Delitzsch, Germany
14th century
Hohnstein, Germany
c. 1200
Frauenstein, Germany
13th century
Groitzsch, Germany
11th century
Schönfeld, Germany
1560-1580
Nossen, Germany
12th century
Tharandt, Germany
13th century
Chemnitz, Germany
1555-1560
Altenberg, Germany
1200
Hartenstein, Saxony, Germany
c. 1200
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Germany
13th 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.