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c. 1100
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1230-1240
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c. 1330
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11th century
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c. 1190
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12th century
Annweiler, Germany
11th century
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1859-1960
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14th century
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13th century
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c. 1210
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13th century
Lambrecht, Germany
12th century
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12th century
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c. 1200
Rheindiebach, Germany
1219
Welschbillig, Germany
13th century
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
12th century
Vorderweidenthal, Germany
1150-1200
Wilgartswiesen, 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.