Wies Pilgrimage Church
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| Wies Pilgrimage Church | |
| Designer | Johan and Dominikus Zimmerman |
| Location | Wies, Germany |
| Date | 1754 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | -- |
| Architectural Style | German Baroque |
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| Notes | -- |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Wies_Pilgrimage_Church.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Pilgrimage Church of Wies |
| UNESCO State Party | Germany |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, iii |
| UNESCO Site ID | 271 |
| Year of Listing | 1983 |
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Wies church
The pilgrimage church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who spent the last eleven years of his life in a nearby dwelling. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, the Steingaden municipality of the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany.
In 1738 tears were seen on a dilapidated wooden figure of the Scourged Saviour. This miracle resulted in a pilgrimage rush to see the sculpture. In 1740 a small chapel was built to house the statue, but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and thus Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine. Many people who have prayed in front of the statue of Jesus on the altar have claimed that people have been miraculously cured of their diseases, which has made this church even more of a pilgrimage site.
Construction took place between 1745 and 1754, and the interior was decorated in stuccowork in the tradition of the Wessobrunner School. "Everything was done throughout the church to make the supernatural visible. Sculpture and murals combined to unleash the divine in visible form"James F. White. Roman Catholic Worship: Trent to Today. ISBN 0-8146-6194-7. Page 50.. The church, commonly regarded as Zimmermann's final masterpiece, was secularized in the beginning of the 19th century. Subsequently, protests of local farmers saved this jewel of rococo architecture and design from being sold and demolished. The Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 and underwent massive restoration in 1985-91.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. geometry diagram, p191.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Carl Lamb. Die Wies. München: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1964. NA1073.L35. interior color photo of choir from nave, plate I, p2. exterior photo column and entablature, plate 13. exterior photo from across the field, plate 5.
Christian Norberg-Shultz. Late Baroque and Rococo Architecture. New York: Electa/Rizzoli, 1980. NA590.N63. ISBN 0-8478-0475-5. LC 82-62750. plan p91,
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