Kwiatoń, Poland
1700
Cieszyn, Poland
1647
Smolnik, Poland
1791
Wolin, Poland
13th century
Prudnik, Poland
1730-1738
Blizne, Poland
15th century
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
1776
Turzańsk, Poland
1801
Wierzbica Górna, Poland
1722
Sosnowiec, Poland
1899
Binarowa, Poland
1500
Owczary, Poland
1653
Darłowo, Poland
1321
Gdynia, Poland
1224
Sulejów, Poland
1176
Radruż, Poland
16th century
Lomza, Poland
1504-1525
Jędrzejów, Poland
1140
Bezławki, Poland
14th century
Lebork, Poland
c. 1400
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.