Zizers, Switzerland
c. 1250
Landquart, Switzerland
13th century
Surses, Switzerland
c. 1226
Stettfurt, Switzerland
13th century
Vouvry, Switzerland
1591
Willisau, Switzerland
13th century
Lieli, Switzerland
13th century
Hospental, Switzerland
13th century
Sils im Domleschg, Switzerland
13th century
Rümligen, Switzerland
c. 1076
Pleujouse, Switzerland
c. 1105
Sissach, Switzerland
c. 1250
Sennwald, Switzerland
c. 1200
Attalens, Switzerland
12th century
Bossonnens, Switzerland
12th century
Courtepin, Switzerland
13th century
Frenkendorf, Switzerland
c. 1275
Bellikon, Switzerland
13th century
Frenkendorf, Switzerland
13th century
Wilchingen, Switzerland
c. 1200
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.