Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Rococo pilgrimage church in an alpine meadow, built around a weeping wooden figure of Christ.
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This audio guide to the Pilgrimage Church of Wies, in the meadows near Füssen, starts with the humble wooden figure at its high altar, patched together by two Steingaden monks in seventeen thirty. It follows a farmer's wife named Maria Lory, the Bavarian state's seizure of monastery property after eighteen hundred, and the neighbouring farmers of Fronreiten. Best heard from the middle of the nave, facing the altar.
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