Schleswig, Germany
c. 770 AD
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
10000 BC
Schelklingen, Germany
40,000-30,000 BC
Trier, Germany
0-200 AD
Trier, Germany
2nd century AD
Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Boppard, Germany
360 AD
Mainz, Germany
1st century AD
Mainz, Germany
0-100 AD
Garz, Germany
8th-9th century
Kempten (Allgäu), Germany
1st century AD
Arkona, Germany
9th century AD
Walting, Germany
90 AD
Welzheim, Germany
160 AD
Perl, Germany
2nd century AD
Mainz, Germany
9 BC
Oberursel, Germany
200-300 BC
Goseck, Germany
4900 BC
Badenweiler, Germany
0-100 AD
Trier, Germany
100-200 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.