St. Gallus, Kirchzarten

St. Gallus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Kirchzarten, but for centuries it was the parish church of the entire catchment area of the Dreisam River from the Black Forest heights to the Zarten basin, with the exception of the Kappler Valley in the west. It is named after Gallus, the founding saint of the Benedictine monastery of St. Gall, and belongs to the Dreisamtal pastoral unit in the Neustadt deanery of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. With its location in the middle of the walled cemetery, which has been preserved as an open space even where it has been abandoned, with the rectory and the chaplain's house, with its wealth of historical monuments and with the regularly inhabited stork's nest on the tower, it is the little-disfigured, aesthetically attractive center of Kirchzarten.