Veytaux, Switzerland
12th century
Gruyères, Switzerland
1270-1282
Bellinzona, Switzerland
13th century
Laufen-Uhwiesen, Switzerland
9th century AD
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
1200-1220
Thun, Switzerland
1180-1190
Nyon, Switzerland
13th century
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
11th century
Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland
c. 1200
Bellinzona, Switzerland
14th century
Spiez, Switzerland
12th century
Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
1260-1270
Grandson, Switzerland
13th century
Aigle, Switzerland
13th century
Lenzburg, Switzerland
c. 1100
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland
1392
Seengen, Switzerland
12th century
Sargans, Switzerland
1282
Regensberg, Switzerland
13th century
Bulle, Switzerland
1230s
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.