Wieskirche
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How it came to be
In 1730 Father Magnus Straub and Brother Lukas Schweiger of Steingaden Abbey in Bavaria made a wooden figure of the Scourged Saviour. It was carried in the abbey's Good Friday procession from 1732 to 1734, and in 1738 it passed to a farmer at Wies. On 14 June that year the farmer's wife, Maria Lory, saw drops in the figure's eyes and took them for tears.
Reports of answered prayers drew pilgrims, and a small chapel soon proved too small. Abbot Marinus II Mayer of Steingaden gave the new church to Dominikus Zimmermann and his brother, the painter Johann Baptist. The foundation stone was laid in 1746, the choir was consecrated in 1749 and the whole church in 1754. The estimated cost of 39,000 guilders rose to 180,000, and the abbey never fully recovered.
With its oval plan and a ceiling painted to look like open sky, the church is regarded as a masterpiece of Bavarian Rococo. Dominikus lived at Wies after it was finished and died there in 1766. When the abbey was dissolved in 1803, the state commission favoured keeping the pilgrimage. The church was inscribed in 1983 and restored from 1985 to 1991 at a cost of 10.6 million marks.
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