Metzerlen-Mariastein, Switzerland
1648
Engelberg, Switzerland
1120
Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
6th century AD
Posieux, Switzerland
1138
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
c. 1125
Bellelay, Switzerland
1136-1142
Pfaffnau, Switzerland
1194
Muri, Switzerland
1027
Rüeggisberg, Switzerland
1072-1076
Fribourg, Switzerland
1255
Chéserex, Switzerland
1110-1120
Kappel am Albis, Switzerland
c. 1185
Niederrickenbach, Switzerland
1528
Wettingen, Switzerland
1227
Dietikon, Switzerland
c. 1130
Alt Sankt Johann, Switzerland
1152
Gommiswald, Switzerland
1761
Seedorf, Switzerland
1138
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
731 AD
Fraubrunnen, Switzerland
1249
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.