Herten, Germany
14th century
Selm, Germany
1122
Stolberg (Rheinland), Germany
13th century
Kleve, Germany
1345-1355
Herne, Germany
before 1243
Kranenburg, Germany
15th century
Steinfurt, Germany
12th century
Attendorn, Germany
13th century
Borken, Germany
13th century
Blankenheim, Germany
c. 1115
Erkelenz, Germany
14th century
Hellenthal, Germany
12th century
Ratingen, Germany
1276
Altwindeck, Germany
12th century
Essen, Germany
1647
Lüdinghausen, Germany
12th century
Brüggen, Germany
13th century
Hattingen, Germany
1227-1243
Langerwehe, Germany
13th century
Blomberg, 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.