Sankt Johann is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Sankt Johann
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Sankt Johann within Mainz-Bingen district
Sankt Johann Show map of Germany Sankt Johann Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 49°52′06″N 08°01′09″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Hans Bergmann[1]
Area
• Total	5.66 km2 (2.19 sq mi)
Elevation	150 m (490 ft)
Population  (2020-12-31)[2]
• Total	839
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55578
Dialling codes	06701
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.sprendlingen-gensingen.de

Geography

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen.

History

The typical Rhenish-Hessian wine village was known in the Middle Ages as Weiler Megelsheim (Weiler means “hamlet” in German) and had its first documentary mention in 1220.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The municipality's landmark is the High Gothic Evangelical Johanniskirche (Saint John's Church) with an important Oberndörfer organ from 1793. This church was built as a pilgrimage church in the latter half of the 14th century by the Counts of Sponheim. It is consecrated to John the Baptist. Worth seeing are the church's mediaeval wall paintings and the modern church windows by Heinz Hindorf.

Sport

Up above the community, on the Wißberg, is a golf course.

Regular events

There are regular concerts at Saint John's Church.

The Sankt Johanner Jahrmarkt, a yearly market, goes back to the Middle Ages and is held on the weekend following Midsummer

Notable people

• Erika Hofmann, German Wine Queen, 1954/1955

References

Further reading

• Heimatkundlicher Arbeitskreis des Volksbildungswerks St.Johann unter der Leitung von Ludwig Diehl:Sankt Johann - Erinnerung in Bildern aus alten Tagen, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 1989, ISBN 3-89264-319-9

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sankt Johann (Rheinhessen).

• St. Johann in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)

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[ru] Санкт-Йохан (Рейнхессен)