Montfort Castle was built by the Counts of Veldenz around the year 1200. The first known dweller at the castle was Eberhard von Lautern (1182-1240). Lautern family owned the castle until 1432. In 1456 the army of archbishop of Mainz and Elector Palatine Frederick I destroyed the castle in local feud.
Despite some repairs Montfort stayed ruined several centuries until the remains where repaired in the 20th century. Today the castle can be visited free. There is also a small museum.
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.