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Wieskirche
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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
Key facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.WHS
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Image
- Wieskirche 003.JPG
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Location
- Steingaden, Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Criteria
- Cultural: i, iii
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID
- 271
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Year
- 1983
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.locmapin
- Germany#Germany Bavaria
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.map_caption
- Location of the Wieskirche
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Area
- 0.1 ha
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Buffer_zone
- 8.4 ha
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- church building
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Q627545
- Dedicated to
- Passion
- Official website
- www.wieskirche.de
- Image
- Wieskirche boenisch okt 2003.jpg
- Patron saint
- Joseph
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- architectural style
- Rococo
- Commons category
- Wieskirche
- architect
- Dominikus Zimmermann
- Commons gallery
- Wieskirche
- native label
- Wieskirche
- inception
- 1754-00-00
- street address
- Wies 14
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography and traffic
- History and description
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- External links
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 dedicated to Saint Joseph. Because of its outstanding Rococo architecture, the Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.
== Geography and traffic ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wieskirche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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