St. Willibald, Pilgrimage church in Jesenwang, Germany.

St. Willibald is a single-nave late Gothic hall church with a slightly southward-shifted choir, standing in the hamlet of Sankt Willibald about 500 m east of Jesenwang. The exterior is largely unarticulated white plaster; a small sexton's house was added on the west in 1981, and a small roof turret with an onion dome sits on the west gable. Inside, the nave keeps its original late Gothic beam ceiling with 561 star motifs and 594 different flowers, framed by carved tracery friezes.

A first pilgrimage church was built here in 1414 under Fürstenfeld abbot Johann II von Bibrach; its brick foundation survives beneath the present floor and was uncovered in 1979. The north side was reused in the 1478 rebuild under abbot Jodok, as a wall inscription records. The high altar arrived in 1617, and in 1910 the late-Gothic wooden ceiling was freed from white overpainting.

The annual Willibald-Ritt, held since 1712, takes horses through the church itself; the building has two tall facing entrances for this purpose. In March 2022 UNESCO added the ride to Germany's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Over three hundred horses and some carriages take part each year, watched by thousands of spectators.

The church stands alone in the hamlet of Sankt Willibald, about 500 m east of Jesenwang on the road toward the old Roman route; a soil profile from the Roman road is kept in a display case in front of the building. Two tall entrances face each other so horses can be ridden through during the Willibald-Ritt. The site is a working pilgrimage church, so expect services and wedding parties.

In July 1983 director Wolfgang Büld filmed the music video for Die Toten Hosen's single "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" inside the church; the weekend shoot was described as turbulent, upset Jesenwang residents, and led the parish priest to reconsecrate the building shortly afterwards. The church also appears briefly in Büld's 1983 comedy Gib Gas – Ich will Spaß, in the scene where Nena and Markus drive a yellow off-road vehicle to nearby Jesenwang airfield.