Senden, Germany
12th century
Hachen, Germany
c. 1000 AD
Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
13th century
Bad Driburg, Germany
14th century
Euskirchen, Germany
1340
Geilenkirchen, Germany
15th century
Tecklenburg, Germany
1490
Billerbeck, Germany
15th century
Detmold, Germany
1190
Grund, Germany
13th century
Hellenthal, Germany
1202-1235
Bad Driburg, Germany
8th century AD
Marienheide, Germany
1273
Legden, Germany
14th century
Langerwehe, Germany
12th century
Hemer, Germany
1353
Lennestadt, Germany
1202-1225
Wachtberg, Germany
11th century
Weilerswist, Germany
14th century
Heimerzheim, 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.