Arlesheim, Switzerland
1680-1681
Pfaffnau, Switzerland
1194
Muri, Switzerland
1027
Muttenz, Switzerland
12th century
Rüeggisberg, Switzerland
1072-1076
Fribourg, Switzerland
1255
Chéserex, Switzerland
1110-1120
Cham, Switzerland
9th century AD
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
9th century AD
Kappel am Albis, Switzerland
c. 1185
Niederrickenbach, Switzerland
1528
Wettingen, Switzerland
1227
Rüegsau, Switzerland
12th century
Dietikon, Switzerland
c. 1130
Alt Sankt Johann, Switzerland
1152
Gommiswald, Switzerland
1761
Seedorf, Switzerland
1138
Trub, Switzerland
1139
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
731 AD
Märstetten, Switzerland
12th century
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.