Habsburg, Switzerland
1020-1030
Binningen, Switzerland
1290s
Vaumarcus, Switzerland
13th century
Münchenstein, Switzerland
1260-1270
Mammern, Switzerland
13th century
Amriswil, Switzerland
13th century
Maienfeld, Switzerland
13th century
Cham, Switzerland
9th century AD
Hitzkirch, Switzerland
13th century
Aubonne, Switzerland
12th century
Colombier, Switzerland
11th century
Winterthur, Switzerland
13th century
Aarwangen, Switzerland
c. 1300
Bern, Switzerland
c. 1250
Tuggen, Switzerland
13th century
Schwarzenburg, Switzerland
12th century
Pfäfers, Switzerland
1206
Pfeffingen, Switzerland
13th century
Bubendorf, Switzerland
13th century
Wattwil, Switzerland
1240
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.