Johanneskirche
Neo-Gothic parish church of 1897 in Miltenberg, known for its colourful stained-glass windows depicting Old and New Testament scenes.
The Johanneskirche is the Evangelical-Lutheran parish church of Miltenberg, the county seat of the Miltenberg district in Lower Franconia, Bavaria. It is named after John the Evangelist.
At a Glance
- Type
- Neo-Gothic hall church, Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
- Location
- Miltenberg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria
- Architect
- Ludwig Hofmann
- Built
- 1895–1897 (foundation stone laid 1895, consecrated 1897)
- Organ
- 18 stops, 2 manuals, one pedal (Vleugels, 1965)
- Status
- listed historic monument
History
The foundation stone was laid on 2 September 1895, and the church was consecrated on 8 September 1897. The parish belongs to the Aschaffenburg deanery within the Ansbach-Würzburg church district of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
Architecture
The building comprises a nave with an open roof truss, a recessed choir to the west, and a transept adjoining the nave to the north. Where the nave and transept meet in the northwest, an octagonal tower rises, topped by a pointed, slate-covered spire whose uppermost storey houses the bell frame.
Bells
From 1896, three bells cast by Rincker rang out, surviving the First World War unscathed. During the Second World War two of them had to be surrendered and were not replaced until 1954.
Stained Glass
Biblical motifs from the Old and New Testament adorn the colourful windows. The two round windows in the choir depict the Flood and Noah's Ark, and the tablets of the Ten Commandments. Two windows in the sacristy are devoted to the prophet Elijah and the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:3–8). The designs were created by the Neckarsteinach painter Peter Valentin Feuerstein in consultation with the then pastor Siegfried Huß, and the windows were executed between 1965 and 1967 at the Peter Meysen workshops in Heidelberg.
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Address
Burgweg 38
63897 Miltenberg
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Sources & links
- Official website
- Official website (retrieved 2026-07-18)
- Wikidata (retrieved 2026-07-13)
- Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-07-13, rev 262451407)
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