Kirn, Germany
12th century
Annweiler, Germany
1212-1232
Altenahr, Germany
c. 1100
Kamp-Bornhofen, Germany
13th century
Neuerburg, Germany
12th century
Wellmich, Germany
1356
Cochem, Germany
c. 1240
Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany
13th century
Alzey, Germany
13th century
Niederheimbach, Germany
1294
Roes, Germany
12th century
Gerolstein, Germany
12th century
Virneburg, Germany
12th century
Kobern-Gondorf, Germany
12th century
Isenburg, Germany
c. 1100
Lahnstein, Germany
1324
Schönecken, Germany
1230
Alf, Germany
c. 936 AD
Prümer Burg, Germany
12th century
Hamm, Germany
14th 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.