Klingenmünster, Germany
c. 1200
Brodenbach, Germany
12th century
Wasgau, Germany
12th century
Busenberg, Germany
12th century
Wachenheim, Germany
12th century
Eschbach, Germany
11th century
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, Germany
1338
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
13th century
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
c. 1371
Niederheimbach, Germany
13th century
Bendorf, Germany
12th century
Herrstein, Germany
13th century
Kaub, Germany
1220
Kamp-Bornhofen, Germany
11th century
Bingen am Rhein, Germany
968 AD / 1855
Gerolstein, Germany
12th century
Rittersdorf, Germany
13th century
Kirchen, Germany
c. 1100
Morbach, Germany
c. 1320
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, Germany
11th 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.