Born on June 30: Dominikus Zimmerman

German architect Dominikus Zimmerman (1685 - 1766) spent his life designing rural churches in the exuberant Bavarian Rococo style. Zimmerman's masterpeice is the lavish Wies Pilgrimage Church (Wieskirche), which he created with his brother Johann Baptist, who was a fresco master.

_{Photo: The Wieskirche, or the Pilgrimage Church of the Scourged Saviour, close to the town of Steingaden in Bavaria. © Flickr Member "Froutes"}