Warsaw, Poland
1390
Kraków, Poland
14th century
Gdańsk, Poland
1343
Lublin, Poland
1592-1617
Wrocław, Poland
13th century
Toruń, Poland
14th century
Gdańsk, Poland
1578-1594
Poznań, Poland
968 AD
Bydgoszcz, Poland
15th century
Szczecin, Poland
1187
Zamość, Poland
1696
Frombork, Poland
1329-1388
Koszalin, Poland
1300-1333
Gniezno, Poland
11th century
Przemyśl, Poland
17th century
Przemyśl, Poland
1495
Warsaw, Poland
1897
Elbląg, Poland
1247
Płock, Poland
c. 1129
Opole, Poland
15th 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.