Washington, D.C., United States
2004
Washington, D.C., United States
1792-1829
Washington, D.C., United States
1914–1922
Washington, D.C., United States
1848-1888
Washington, D.C., United States
1793-1800
Washington, D.C., United States
1829
Washington, D.C., United States
1937
Washington, D.C., United States
1964
Washington, D.C., United States
1982
Washington, D.C., United States
1986
Washington, D.C., United States
1864
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.