Lüdinghausen, Germany
1120
Mechernich, Germany
13th century
Mechernich, Germany
15th century
Hörstel, Germany
c. 1400
Morenhoven, Germany
12th century
Euskirchen, Germany
12th century
Heistern, Germany
1333
Lüdenscheid, Germany
14th century
Warburg, Germany
c. 1250
Bad Münstereifel, Germany
13th century
Salzkotten, Germany
1347-1357
Petershagen, Germany
1306
Bonn, Germany
14th century
Nörvenich, Germany
1400
Euskirchen, Germany
13th century
Harth, Germany
14th century
Schleiden, Germany
c.1300
Euskirchen, Germany
14th century
Euskirchen, Germany
14th century
Schleiden, 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.