Kempten (Allgäu), Germany
15th century
Weissenburg, Germany
90 AD
Bollendorf, Germany
2nd century AD
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
c. 80 AD
Bopfingen, Germany
1200-300 BC
Aalen, Germany
c. 150 AD
Putgarten, Germany
4300-2800 BC
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
200 AD
Kleindannewerk, Germany
500 AD
Lancken-Granitz, Germany
3500-3200 BC
Borgsum, Germany
9-10th century AD
Nehren, Germany
4th century AD
Gerolfingen, Germany
100-200 AD
Hüfingen, Germany
Tawern, Germany
1st century AD
Starnberg, Germany
133 AD
Köngen, Germany
100 AD
Sylt, Germany
0 AD
Blankenheim, Germany
1st century AD
Keitum, Germany
3000 BCE
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.