St. Ilgen - St. Ägidius

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.