Skopje, North Macedonia
1451-1469
Ohrid, North Macedonia
7th century AD
Ohrid, North Macedonia
200 BCE
Ohrid, North Macedonia
13th century
Ohrid, North Macedonia
9th century AD
Skopje, North Macedonia
12th century
Skopje, North Macedonia
10th century AD
Ohrid, North Macedonia
4th century AD
Ohrid, North Macedonia
11th century
Gradsko, North Macedonia
3rd century BCE
Bitola, North Macedonia
c. 350 BCE
Kumanovo, North Macedonia
1900-1800 BCE
Skopje, North Macedonia
168 BCE
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.