page_title: Niedernhausen
section_title: Johanneskirche (Evangelical church)
hierarchical_section_title: Niedernhausen / Culture and sightseeing / Buildings / Johanneskirche (Evangelical church)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Johanneskirche in Niedernhausen OT Niederseelbach English: St. John's Church in Niedernhausen-Niederseelbach
context_page_description: Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants.
context_section_description: The Johanneskirche in Niederseelbach was from the Middle Ages the Seelbacher Grund’s religious and spiritual hub. It is the most valuable historic building in the greater community of Niedernhausen. When the church was built is unknown, although there must have been a forerunner building at the time when the parish was founded about 1220 by the Counts of Nassau. The church's somewhat off-centre location in relation to the Niederseelbach village core is a clue that the church might have begun as a rural church (Feldkirche), as was customary in Carolingian times about 800.
  The church is a plain building with a flat-ceilinged single nave and a quire. Adjoining it on the north side is the tower, which has an underground vault. A few jutting corbels on the walls and in the quire are all that is left of the former Gothic vaulting, which itself might put the nave's building date in the 15th century. The tower acquired its Welsche Haube (the particular kind of cupola seen here) in 1790.
caption: Johanneskirche (“Saint John’s Church”), an Evangelical church in Niederseelbach with 200-year-old limetree
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