St. Ägidius, Gothic pilgrimage church in Schildthurn, Germany.

Wallfahrtskirche St. Ägidius is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in Schildthurn, part of Zeilarn in Lower Bavaria. Its 78-metre tower, faced with tuff blocks, has five square and four octagonal storeys and a 30-metre spire with a twisted tip. The interior preserves 15th-century wall paintings behind the high altar and a 1660 altarpiece showing Mary giving the rosary to St Dominic and St Catherine of Siena.

The church was built around 1237, possibly on the site of an earlier structure. In the 15th century it was rebuilt in Gothic style, and after 1730 it was converted in Baroque style. It became a pilgrimage centre where St. Giles, the Virgin Mary and the three holy virgins Einbeth, Wilbeth and Warbeth were invoked for fertility and the desire for children.

The church is a pilgrimage site visited mainly by women hoping for children or praying for the health of newborns. This connection to motherhood shapes the way people move through the space and gives the building a personal, devotional feel that goes beyond ordinary parish life.

The church sits in the center of Zeilarn and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding area. Visiting in daylight gives you the best chance to take in the wall paintings inside and the tower from the outside.

Pilgrims once rocked a large wooden cradle under the gallery to ask for children, a practice called Wiegenschutzen. Bishop Heinrich von Hofstätter had it removed around 1870. Only one votive cradle, from 1868, survives, and a display case on the left wall of the nave holds silver swaddled infants and votive pictures.