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14th century
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1270
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1220
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13th century
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12th century
Mudershausen, Germany
14th century
Üxheim, Germany
13th century
Schloß Thorn, Germany
16th century
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12th century
Bärenbach, Germany
12th century
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12th century
Treis-Karden, Germany
13th century
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11th century
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12th century
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11th century
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11th century
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12th century
Lemberg, Germany
c. 1200
Treis-Karden, Germany
11th century
Asbach, 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.