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Founded: 17th centuryCategory: Castles and fortifications in Sweden
Historical period: Swedish Empire (Sweden)
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Grensholm history dates from the 1400s and the chapel was built in the late 1500s. The current main building was probably built in the late 1600s and restored with a new floor in the mid-1700s. Two wings were also added then. The castle is named after statesman Magnus Gren (died in 1490s). Today Grensholm is a conference and event 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.