Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: St. Ägidius

The late Gothic church made of larch wood is one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland. The rood screen bears the date 1459. After a reconstruction in 1654 it was consecrated. Reconstructions took place in the first half of the 19th century. The church has a block structure, standing on a stone foundation and is reinforced on both sides. When the wooden church became too small for the parish, in 1906-1908 the western wall was demolished and a neo-Romanesque brick nave, seen here, was added. The wooden bell tower was also built around this time.

The late Gothic church made of larch wood is one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland. The rood screen bears the date 1459. After a reconstruction in 1654 it was consecrated. Reconstructions took place in the first half of the 19th century. The wooden church has a block structure, standing on a stone foundation and is reinforced on both sides. When the church became too small for the parish, in 1906-1908 the western wall was demolished and a neo-Romanesque brick nave was added.

The late Gothic church made of larch wood is one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland. The rood screen bears the date 1459. After a reconstruction in 1654, it was consecrated. Reconstructions took place in the first half of the 19th century. The wooden church has a block structure, standing on a stone foundation, and is reinforced on both sides. When the church became too small for the parish, in 1906-1908 the western wall was demolished and a neo-Romanesque brick nave was added.

In the annals of Kloster St. Peter auf dem Schwarzwald (Saint Peter in the Black Forest), house monastery and burial place of the House of Zähringen, the church is mentioned first time in 1089. In 1323 it the place is called “sant Gylien”, 1360 "sant Gylgen". A decade later it changed to “capella s. Egidii . All this goes back to Saint Giles, one of the "Fourteen Holy Helpers", who was and still is venerated in Saint-Gilles in Southern France. His name changed to Sankt Ägidius in German. The church was erected from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. The basement of the tower can still be classified in the late Romanesque, the remaining components in the early Gothic. It is way too large for the little hamlet with less than 100 inhabitants. There are theories that it might have been a Saint Ägidius pilgrim´s church, but there is no proof. The vaults if the choir.

In the annals of Kloster St. Peter auf dem Schwarzwald (Saint Peter in the Black Forest), house monastery and burial place of the House of Zähringen, the church is mentioned first time in 1089. In 1323 it the place is called “sant Gylien”, 1360 "sant Gylgen". A decade later it changed to “capella s. Egidii . All this goes back to Saint Giles, one of the "Fourteen Holy Helpers", who was and still is venerated in Saint-Gilles in Southern France. His name changed to Sankt Ägidius in German. The church was erected from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. The basement of the tower can still be classified in the late Romanesque, the remaining components in the early Gothic. It is way too large for the little hamlet with less than 100 inhabitants. There are theories that it might have been a Saint Ägidius pilgrim´s church, but there is no proof.

In the annals of Kloster St. Peter auf dem Schwarzwald (Saint Peter in the Black Forest), house monastery and burial place of the House of Zähringen, the church is mentioned first time in 1089. In 1323 it the place is called “sant Gylien”, 1360 "sant Gylgen". A decade later it changed to “capella s. Egidii . All this goes back to Saint Giles, one of the "Fourteen Holy Helpers", who was and still is venerated in Saint-Gilles in Southern France. His name changed to Sankt Ägidius in German. The church was erected from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century. The basement of the tower can still be classified in the late Romanesque, the remaining components in the early Gothic. It is way too large for the little hamlet.