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Founded: 12th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in Germany
Historical period: Hohenstaufen Dynasty (Germany)
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Konrad and Arnold von Hirnsberg built Hohenaschau Castle in the late 12th century at the entrance to the Upper Priental. Important noble families expanded the property and developed the castle into the centre of the administrative seat of their lordship; with their influence, they shaped the land and people in western Chiemgau.
During the reconstruction and extension of the castle in the Renaissance (1540-1560) and High Baroque (1672-1686) styles, the Baroque castle chapel and the former benefice house, today's Priental Museum, were built.
After further alterations, mainly from 1905-1908 by Theodor von Cramer-Klett, the property was transferred to the Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Real Estate Agency). This leased it mainly to the social welfare organisation of the Federal Finance Administration as a holiday home.
Today Hohenaschau Castle is open to the public in summer season.
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.