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The predecessor of Parz castle was a moated castle, the exact period of construction of which is unknown. It was first documented in 1220. In 1514, the estate of Parz, including the moated castle, came into the possession of Sigmund Ludwig von Pollheim, who built a new large manor directly adjacent to it.
Around 1800, the building was largely rebuilt, and only remnants of the former moated castle remain today. The manor house subsequently served as housing for officials.
Due to its dilapidated condition, it stood vacant between 1946 and 1963. It was then rented by an artist group led by Hans Hoffmann-Ybbs, who transformed it into an artist center that operated until 1998.
The moated castle is currently owned by Georg Spiegelfeld-Schneeburg, who in 2007 leased it to the operators of the Castelvecchio restaurant and the owners of the Galerie Schloss Parz.
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.