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Founded: 19th centuryCategory: Museums in Finland
Historical period: Russian Grand Duchy (Finland)
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Lepikko Cottage (Lepikon torppa in Finnish) is the humble birthplace of Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (1900-86), President of Finland from 1956 to 1981. It was built in the later half of 19th century and Kekkonen family lived there until 1906. Today Lepikko is a small museum representing the early life of Urho Kekkonen.
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.