Potsdam, Germany
1914-1917
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
13th century
Brühl, Germany
1725-1768
Weimar, Germany
1498-1500
Hildesheim, Germany
1010-1020
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
1490-1511
Bad Homburg, Germany
90-135 AD
Dessau-Rosslau, Germany
1925-1926
Weimar, Germany
1619
Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Naumburg (Saale), Germany
13th century
Sankt Goar, Germany
1245
Bad Kissingen, Germany
16th century
Boppard, Germany
360 AD
Hildesheim, Germany
1010-1022
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
12th century
Boppard, Germany
13th century
Koblenz, Germany
1777-1793
Baden-Baden, Germany
18th century
Trechtingshausen, Germany
1316
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.