Johanniskirche (Lahnstein, Germany)

found: Thon, Alexander. Die Johanniskirche in Lahnstein, 2014:title page (Johanniskirche; located in Lahnstein [Germany]) pages 4-5, 7 (church lies not far from the mouth of the river Lahn into the river Rhine, on a former peninsula once created by a branch of the Lahn, now disappeared; building subject to flooding because of its location; why the church was built some distance from the original settlement of Niederlahnstein (combined in 1969 with Oberlahnstein to form the city of Lahnstein), endowed with municipal privileges since 1332, is today unclear, but it served as the parish church of the settlement until its function as such was taken over in the 17th century by the Barbara Chapel in town; built on the site of a previous Roman fort of the period after 367; archaeological evidence indicates a church building onsite as early as the 9th century; first direct documentary evidence exists in a document from emperor Frederick Barbarossa 1161)

found: Förderkreis Johanniskirche Lahnstein website, Feb. 5, 2014:home page (Johanniskirche Lahnstein) "Geschichte der Johanniskirche" (Johanniskirche; the earliest galleried church (Emporenkirche) on the Rhine, built about 1136, beginning a new style of late Romanesque; flat-ceilinged, four-bayed basilica with piling, with gallery openings on both sides ("Die flachgedeckte, vierjochige Pfeilerbasilika mit den beiderseitigen Emporenöffnungen"))

found: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek online, Feb. 5, 2014(access point: Sankt Johannes Baptist <Niederlahnstein>; other access points: Sankt Johannes Baptist <Lahnstein>; Klosterkirche St. Johannes Bapt. <Niederlahnstein>; Klosterkirche Sankt Johannes d. T. <Niederlahnstein>; Johanniskirche Niederlahnstein <Lahnstein>; Johanneskirche Niederlahnstein <Lahnstein>); former Catholic parish church in Niederlahnstein (Lahnstein), built middle of the 12th century; destroyed by fire 1794; rebuilt 1856-1866, and again in 1960-1961 to its original configuration; originally under the custody of the fathers of the Genossenschaft vom heiligsten Herzen Jesu und Maria; today belongs to the parish of St. Barbara, Niederlahnstein)

found: German Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2014:"Johanniskirche (Lahnstein)" (Johanniskirche; a Catholic church in Lahnstein (Rhineland-Palatinate); a late Romanesque basilica, the present structure built in the 12th century, not far from the mouth of the river Lahn into the Rhine and with the private Johannes-Gymnasium Lahnstein in the city section Niederlahnstein; a Roman fort was built on the site in 369, the site being later utilized by the Frankish nobility; a small proprietary church was built middle of the 9th century, and the present west tower before 1000; the present structure was built between 1130-1136, rebuilt in Baroque style after the Thirty Years' War, renewed again in the mid-19th century; further renovations have occurred, beginning with the foundation of a Benedictine convent in 1907 (taken over by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in 1920 ("Johanniskloster der Kongregation vom Heiligsten Herzen Jesu und Maria")), and throughout the 20th century)

found: Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2014:"Lahnstein" (St. John's Church; the present church, a flat-roofed Romanesque five-bay pillar basilica was built ca. 1130.; it is regarded as the oldes galleried church on the Rhine and was the model for the churches of the so-called Lahn Group, which included the parish churches of Moselweiss, Güls, Ems, Dietkirchen, and Morsbach in the Siegerland) "Niederlahnstein" (Johanniskirche (English: Church of St. John))