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Founded: 1730Category: Palaces, manors and town halls in Sweden
Historical period: The Age of Liberty (Sweden)
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Elleholm Manor (Elleholms hovgård) history dates back to the Middle Ages. In the 15th century it was owned by knight Axel Pedersson (Tott). The current manor house was built in 1730 and around 1850 it was a residence for mistress of Fredrik VII of Denmark. There is also a small manor church (1713) which is a popular wedding church.
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.