Oviedo, Spain
790s AD
Oviedo, Spain
781 AD
Oviedo, Spain
9th century AD
Oviedo, Spain
761 AD
Oviedo, Spain
848 AD
Oviedo, Spain
9th century AD
Oviedo, Spain
c. 830 AD
Villaviciosa, Spain
893 AD
Oviedo, Spain
842 AD
Cangas de Onís, Spain
737 AD
Lena, Spain
852 AD
Bendones, Spain
792-842 AD
Les Regueres, Spain
9th century AD
Villaviciosa, Spain
921 AD
Pravia, Spain
774-783 AD
Tuñón, Spain
891 AD
Colunga, Spain
9th century AD
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.