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St. Peter Baroque Church

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The special thing here is the library.

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A wooden church was first built in St. Peter by the Benedictines in 1100. The baroque church with its two onion domes, which stands on this site today, dates from 1720 and was designed by Peter Thumb from Vorarlberg. Its interior design includes 55 frescoes by Franz Joseph Spiegler depicting scenes from the life of the Apostle Paul and several sculptures by Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer. The high altar has the peculiarity that its external appearance can be changed. To do this, various motifs are slid onto the altar from a holder that can be rolled off. In this way, the altarpiece can adapt to different occasions within the church year.

 

The former monastery of St. Peter also includes a library, which was also planned by Peter Thumb. The special feature: It has a walk-in gallery on which twelve figures stood at the time. They symbolized the various fields of knowledge for which books were available here. Today, however, six of them no longer exist. By 1806, the library had more than 20,000 books. Among others, a Koberger Bible from 1483 was kept here, as well as a number of manuscripts, some of which dated back to the tenth century. However, the book collections were moved elsewhere in 1806, as the monastery was dissolved in that year. In the meantime, there is a virtual form of the St. Peter's library, which has been maintained by several libraries and archives since 2009.

 

Otherwise, it is worth mentioning about St. Peter that it is located in the Glottertal. This valley is not only quite idyllic, but also very famous since the eighties, because the soap opera "Die Schwarzwaldklinik" was set here. The building that represented the hospital actually exists in the upper part of the valley. It is the so-called "Carlsbau" from 1914, which was then as now in use as a clinic. Worth mentioning is furthermore the mountain Kandel, which rises with a height of 1,242 meters between the Glottertal, the Simonswälder and the Elztal.

 

In the Glottertal, the so-called "Glottertäler Weißherbst" is also pressed, a white wine made from red grapes. In general, the Glottertal has a favorable climate, so that fruit also grows well there.

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