St-Taurine (Gigny)
The Romanesque parish church of St-Taurin (formerly St-Pierre ) is a church dedicated to St. Former abbey church consecrated to Taurinus in Gigny, France ( Jura department , Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region ). The place with 250 inhabitants, located in the mountains of the Revermont , was the center of a monastery community consisting of 49 villages in the early and high Middle Ages.
The abbey was founded in 893 by an abbot from the Benedictine monastery to the north in " Baume-les-Messieurs ".
The church impresses with its severity and size. The massive unworked pillars and the octagonal bell tower point to the pre-Romanesque origins of this part of the church. In 1157 the village and the monastery were destroyed by fire. Cardinal Giuliano della Rovère, who later became Pope Julius II , became prior of the abbey in 1495. Steles and tombstones from the 16th century are among the cultural and historical features of the church. The monastery was secularized in 1760 and abandoned with the revolution. The collegiate church became a parish church under the name Saint-Pierre in the 18th century and is now called Saint-Taurin.
In 909, monks from Baume des Messieurs and Gigny moved out to found the monastery of Cluny under the leadership of the abbey founder Berno von Baume , which became a center of European importance.
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A stratigraphic sequence can be seen under the abri of the Grotto of La Baume in Gigny , which extends over five periods from the middle Pleistocene. Five stages of climatic chronology and biostratigraphy can be seen in the sediments. However, there are numerous gaps that show that there is not continuous filling in the reference period.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 4.7 ″ N , 5 ° 27 ′ 43 ″ E