Wieskirche

Church in Steingaden, Germany, dating from 1754

The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (officially: Wallfahrtskirche zum Gegeißelten Heiland auf der Wies ("Pilgrimage Church of the Scourged Savior on the Meadow"); abbr. Wieskirche ("Meadow Church")) is a Roman Catholic oval Rococo church, designed in the late 1740s and completed in 1754. It is the major work of the brothers Johann Baptist and Dominikus Zimmermann, the latter of whom lived nearby for the last eleven years of his life. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, in the municipality of Steingaden, Germany. It belongs to the diocese of Augsburg (deanery of Weilheim-Schongau), and is ded

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Type:
Church

Period:
1754

Where:
Steingaden, Germany

Coordinates:
47.68°N, 10.90°E

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