Orre Old Church, Orre, 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.

Verena Fuglestad (3 years ago)
Nice old church and graveyard. Worth a visit. Wish it was open and we could see inside…

rita kirkerød rosland (3 years ago)
It was so nice Orre old church where my husband was baptized 77 years ago and grandchildren will get married there on 1 July 2022

Mads Roar Landøy (4 years ago)
Beautiful

John C. N. Eriksen (6 years ago)
Beautiful

Egil Lund (6 years ago)
Nice location, nice church

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