Weimar, Germany
1904
Bayreuth, Germany
1744-1748
Essen, Germany
1847
Potsdam, Germany
1847-1863
Bacharach, Germany
c. 1135
Oberwesel, Germany
1100-1149
Potsdam, Germany
1835-1849
Wannsee, Germany
1826
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
c. 1000 AD
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
1536
Weimar, Germany
1776
Corvey, Germany
844 AD
Trier, Germany
100-200 AD
Kaub, Germany
1326
Bad Muskau, Germany
1811
Insel Reichenau, Germany
724 AD
Potsdam, Germany
1787-1792
Lorsch, Germany
764 AD
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
1504
Potsdam, Germany
1844
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.