St. John's Church

The Protestant St. John's Church in Barby in the Salzland district in Saxony-Anhalt was built in the early Gothic style in the 13th century. Until the Reformation, it was the monastery church of the Franciscan monastery there.

The 40-metre-long and 10-metre-wide church, built between 1264 and 1271 as a Franciscan monastery church from quarry stones, is considered the oldest surviving building in the city. On the north side it originally bordered on the cloister, so there is only one window at the east end. The south façade is divided into twelve ogival windows, which reach from the eaves to three metres above the ground. Below it are two round-arched portals. The east and west walls are divided with three-window groups, on the east gable is the original gable cross. As a monastery church of a mendicant order, the building did not have a tower, but the roof has a turret.

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