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Founded: 1672-1683Category: Palaces, manors and town halls in Finland
Historical period: Swedish Empire (Finland)
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Suur-Sarvilahti (Storsarvlax) three storey manor was built by the remarkable noble family Creutz. Building started in 1672 and completed 1683. After them Born family used it as a residence for the long time. The manor was damaged in the Great Wrath and renovated in 18th and 19th centuries. Borns donated Suur-Sarvilahti to Svenska kulturfonden (foundation of Swedish culture) in 1950s.
The rare baroque-style makes Suur-Sarvilahti one of the most finest manor houses in Finland. Unfortunately it’s nowadays in private use and not open to public.
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.