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.

Construction took place between 1745 and 1754. "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 0814661947. 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. Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983 and underwent massive restoration in 1985-91.

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