Cologne, Germany
1248
Berlin, Germany
1823-1830
Berlin, Germany
1855
Berlin, Germany
1861
Berlin, Germany
1910
Bremen, Germany
1404-1410
Aachen, Germany
793-813 AD
Berlin, Germany
1897
Potsdam, Germany
1744
Lübeck, Germany
1143
Bamberg, Germany
11th century
Trier, Germany
c. 1230
Bamberg, Germany
1002-1111
Lübeck, Germany
1250-1350
Trier, Germany
4th century / 1235
Völklingen, Germany
1881
Trier, Germany
186-200 AD
Eisenach, Germany
c. 1067
Regensburg, Germany
11th century
Speyer, Germany
1030
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.