Just a Little Church in the Country----Wrong!

After Neuschwanstein, we were headed to Oberammergau, but the kids had read about this church which was just a few miles off the highway.  We decided we should check it out.  Weiskirche, appropriately called "The Church in the Meadow",  is described by travel guru, Rick Steves, as "overripe with decoration but bright and bursting with beauty, this church is a divine droplet, a curly curlicue, the final flowering of the Baroque movement."  It is Germany's greatest Rococo-style church and "is newly restored and looking as brilliant as the day it floated down from heaven." (another quote from Steves).

There is an intriquing story behind this church, but let's just say you would NEVER expect to find such a thing in this little farming village!  So I give to you, our (the A-Team's and the Morgan's) version of what we caught on camera which doesn't touch what it really looks like.

The views from the outside are pretty impressive...

...but get a load of the inside!

We were so glad that we took this little detour!  I have often pondered, since going to this church and others that we have seen in the weeks since, about the love and devotion those that designed, built, and crafted these edifices must have had for the Lord.  This quality of work is phenomenal, especially when you consider the tools they had to work with (or lack of).  Someone or lots of someones had to sacrifice a lot.  But I've also wondered if at some point, if some of the churches became a monument to the people who built them or adorned them, or if at some point some of the churches became the subject of one-upmanship....the church over in such and such a village just built __________, we need to do something bigger, better, more spectacular.  I hope not, but after you see a few of my coming posts, you'll see why I've wondered.

We left Weiskirche and headed for Oberammergau with lots to talk about---what a wonderful experience it had been!