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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.

What is the parish church of the village St. Peter (pop. 2400) was once the church of the Benedictian abbey "St. Peter auf dem Schwarzwald" ("Saint Peter in the Black Forest"). Architect Peter Thumb, who has worked as well in Schwarzach, designed this baroque church, built 1724/27. Below this church are probably the foundations of a large romanesque church, as the monastery got founded already 1093 by Berthold I of Zaehringen (see "Freiburg") as a "family monastery" for the House of Zaehringen. It was part of the monastical reformation, that Bernhard of Hirsau had triggered, influenced by Cluniac ideas. Over the centuries the abbey burnt down four times and went through hard times, but existed upto 1806, when it got dissolved in the secularisation. Most buildings of the large (baroque) monastery complex still exist - now used for the local administration and a seminary. Not only the southern parts of Bavaria offer comfort zones for true enthusiasts of baroque architecture. The area of the Black Forest offers some flamboyant interiors as well.

What is the parish church of the village St. Peter (pop. 2400) was once the church of the Benedictian abbey "St. Peter auf dem Schwarzwald" ("Saint Peter in the Black Forest"). Architect Peter Thumb, who has worked as well in Schwarzach, designed this baroque church, built 1724/27. Below this church are probably the foundations of a large romanesque church, as the monastery got founded already 1093 by Berthold I of Zaehringen (see "Freiburg") as a "family monastery" for the House of Zaehringen. It was part of the monastical reformation, that Bernhard of Hirsau had triggered, influenced by Cluniac ideas. Over the centuries the abbey burnt down four times and went through hard times, but existed upto 1806, when it got dissolved in the secularisation. Most buildings of the large (baroque) monastery complex still exist - now used for the local administration and a seminary.