Milkel, Germany
1302
Meißen, Germany
1553-1555
Reinsberg, Germany
17th century
Wildenfels, Germany
c. 1200
Marienberg, Germany
12th century
Breitenbrunn/Erzgebirge, Germany
13th century
Belgershain, Germany
17th century
Neuhausen (Erzgebirge), Germany
c. 1200
Mühltroff, Germany
10th century AD
Triebel, Germany
c. 1200
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.