Bedburg, Germany
13th century
Kerpen, Germany
13th century
Bad Honnef, Germany
c. 1200
Düren, Germany
12th century
Wachtberg, Germany
13th century
Herbede, Germany
1354
Warburg, Germany
11th century
Dahlem, Germany
13th century
Stromberg, Germany
12th century
Wachtberg, Germany
1337/1659
Bad Berleburg, Germany
13th century
Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany
1228-1231
Velen, Germany
15th century
Euskirchen, Germany
11th century
Dortmund, Germany
13th century
Nümbrecht, Germany
11th century/1635
Mechernich, Germany
14th century
Hückeswagen, Germany
c. 1189
Vlotho, Germany
c. 1250
Wissen, Germany
12th 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.