Johannishögl

Johannishögl, church and inn

The Johannishögl is a 705 m high mountain peak of Högl in the community Piding, County Berchtesgaden in Bavaria. At the exposed location are the Roman Catholic Church of St. John and a guest house. The Johannishögl is a prime vantage point and opened up from Piding and Ainring from a driveway.

View

In the east, the city of Salzburg, the Gaisberg and the Tennen Mountains can be seen. Southeast is the Unterberg. In the south you can see the pale mountains, behind the watzmann and the Reiteralpe. In the southwest lies the Hochstaufen and Zwiesel. From the north side of the church the view extends far beyond the Rupertiwinkel to southern Innviertel.

Church

The branch church of the parish Piding is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Location and atmosphere of the place have contributed to the site of the church often a pre-Christian place of worship is suspected. In fact, the coincidence of the pagan tradition of the summer solstice with the feast of the patron saint speaks on June 24 for such an assumption. In addition, the remains of a sacrificial site from the Roman period are outside the church today can be seen here probably Mithraism was worshiped.

The walls of the nave date from the Romanesque. In the Gothic era was rebuilt, in which the rib vault was drafted. 1736 replaced the Baroque tower in the original roof skylights. The church contains in the interior special art treasures, including Romanesque and Gothic frescoes and a side altar in the early Renaissance style ( 1525 ), himself comes from the workshop of the Gordian Guckh. The Baroque high altar shows the side the Apostles Peter and Paul, and in the middle of the Beheading of John the Baptist. In the entrance hall is the altar of St. Wolfgang of 1616.

2009 roof, facade and tower of the church renovated. About 200 meters below is the belonging to the Church locust chapel in the woods.

Inn

In the courtyard of Sanktjohannser, formerly got also the sacristan at the church, 1870 an inn was opened. On Sunday, September 30, 2012, the guest house burned down.