Lucerne, Switzerland
1633-
Lugano, Switzerland
15th century
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
1220-1229
Locarno, Switzerland
1498
Zürich, Switzerland
1910
Lugano, Switzerland
1499
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
1606
Appenzell, Switzerland
1420
Romainmôtier-Envy, Switzerland
450 AD
Interlaken, Switzerland
12th century
Einsiedeln, Switzerland
10th century AD
Geneva, Switzerland
10th century
Payerne, Switzerland
950-960 AD
Zug, Switzerland
c. 1266
Stans, Switzerland
1641-1647
Geneva, Switzerland
1863-1866
Sion, Switzerland
12th century
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1049
Chur, Switzerland
1154-1270
Zug, Switzerland
1595
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.