Johanneskirche
St. Johann Baptist is a Romanesque church building dedicated to John the Baptist, whose feast day is 24 June. The site reaches back much earlier than the present structure: in 815, a document recorded a “ecclesia sancti Johannis baptiste in loco Feringas,” agreed between the Hochstift Freising and the deacon Huuezzi, and it functioned as the first parish church of the original parish of Föhring. What you see today largely comes from the 13th century. The medieval church was built as a church-fortress, enclosed by a ring wall that also served as a defensive refuge. Its Romanesque layout includes a west-facing nave and, on the east, a heavy square chancel tower with a pitched roof; at the base, the wall thickness is given as 180 cm. …
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