Strinda Church, Trondheim, Norway

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Wieskirche

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.

Åse Hågård Ølmheim (4 years ago)
Church concert, with Jonsvatnet Brassband, Solbakken and Vikåsen Brass and Choir from Heimdal

Kenneth (4 years ago)
Beautiful nave church from 1900. My daughter was baptized here. Nice tower with great details

Bodil Thomassen (4 years ago)
Maintained nice church.

Nils Witzøe (4 years ago)
Good and warm on a cold day. Good with Covid-19 measures

Elin Sivertsen (5 years ago)
A beautiful old church

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