Schloss Weinberg is an Upper Austrian castle complex and is located on the vineyard above the village of Kefermarkt in the Mühlviertel. The first castle in this location was built in the 11th century. The conversion into a Renaissance castle was made by Hans Wilhelm von Zelking in 1600. The Thürheimer bought the property in 1629. After becoming almost uninhabitable in the early 1980s, Upper Austria rented the castle in 1986 for 99 years, the renewed and organized in 1988 a national exhibition on the premises. Since 1989 the castle has been used as a regional music and education center.
References: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.