Hünenberg, Switzerland
12th century
Küsnacht, Switzerland
11th century
Sennwald, Switzerland
c. 1200
Herdern, Switzerland
13th century
Surpierre, Switzerland
13th century
Auenstein, Switzerland
13th century
Brunegg, Switzerland
13th century
Oberflachs, Switzerland
c. 1200
Teufenthal, Switzerland
12th century
Landquart, Switzerland
c. 1235
Arosa, Switzerland
13th century
Cazis, Switzerland
12th century
Rothenbrunnen, Switzerland
c. 1250
Untervaz, Switzerland
13th century
Thusis, Switzerland
13th century
Pratval, Switzerland
13th century
Churwalden, Switzerland
12th century
Malans, Switzerland
13th century
Oberbipp, Switzerland
13th century
Lauperswil, Switzerland
13th 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.