Val Müstair, Switzerland
c. 775 AD
Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland
1090-1097
Rheinau, Switzerland
778 AD
Disentis-Mustér, Switzerland
8th century AD
Warth, Switzerland
1150
Windisch, Switzerland
1308
Schwyz, Switzerland
1275
Uri, Switzerland
1879
Stans, Switzerland
1583
Bremgarten, Switzerland
c. 1300
Eschenz, Switzerland
15th century
Weesen, Switzerland
1256
Fischingen, Switzerland
1138
Metzerlen-Mariastein, Switzerland
1648
Basel, Switzerland
1898-1901
Engelberg, Switzerland
1120
Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
6th century AD
Posieux, Switzerland
1138
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
c. 1125
Bellelay, Switzerland
1136-1142
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.