Sassnitz, Germany
3500-2800 BC
Sassnitz, Germany
3500-2800 BC
Tholey, Germany
1st century AD
Otzenhausen, Germany
400 BC
Boitin, Germany
Ostalbkreis, Germany
c. 200 AD
Venz, Germany
9th century AD
Blaubeuren, Germany
41,000 BC
Koblenz, Germany
1200-800 BC
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
500 BC
Grabenstetten, Germany
2nd century BC
Peiting, Germany
100 AD
Degernau, Germany
Bronze Age
Tengen, Germany
1st 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.