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Founded: 11th centuryCategory: Religious sites in France
Historical period: Birth of Capetian dynasty (France)
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The church of Saint Jean de Montierneuf was built in the last third of the 11th century. Supported externally by flying buttresses and pierced by numerous bays, it gives the choir an abundant and unexpected clarity. The original Romanesque chevet of the church of Saint Jean de Montierneuf is largely raised towards the end of the 13th century by a Gothic apse.
The abbey church was seriously damaged during the wars of religion and underwent important restorations in the 17th century, the most obvious of which was the construction of a new façade following the shortening of the nave.
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.