Elsterberg, Germany
1200-1225
Oelsnitz, Vogtland, Germany
c. 1200
Liebstadt, Germany
13th century
Pockau-Lengefeld, Germany
c. 1200
Gnandstein, Germany
1240
Hainewalde, Germany
1750-1753
Hörnitz, Germany
1651-1654
Strehla, Germany
1335
Reinsberg, Germany
12th century
Hoyerswerda, Germany
16th century
Döbschütz, Germany
10th century AD
Auerbach, Vogtland, Germany
12th century
Niederau, Germany
1274
Bärenstein, Germany
14th century
Bad Düben, Germany
c. 1237
Weißenborn, Saxony, Germany
13th century
Tannenberg, Germany
12th century
Hartenstein, Germany
12th century
Mügeln, Germany
1150
Pöhl, Germany
14th 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.