Berlin, Germany
2003
Untertürkheim, Germany
1820-1824
Nuremberg, Germany
1517-1520
Weimar, Germany
1823-1828
Greifswald, Germany
c. 1260
Hamburg, Germany
1877
Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany
10th century
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
c. 616 BC
Wenningstedt-Braderup, Germany
3000 BC
Degernau, Germany
Bronze Age
Wadern, Germany
2nd century AD
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.