St. John's Church, Plauen

St. John's Church in Plauen is the main Protestant church in the city. The consecration document of the predecessor church in 1122 is also the first documentary mention of Plauen. The oldest parts of today's church are from a three-nave basilica building, which was started around 1224. In the northeast corner of the church is the chapel of the reeves, which was first mentioned in 1322. In a crypt under the chapel the son of Henry III the Tall, and his wife Agnes of Schwarzburg were buried.

The church with two 52 meter high towers was rebuilt as a Gothic hall church after several fires. During another fundamental reconstruction of the church in 1815, the remains of the interior furnishings that had survived until then were removed, so that the church has almost no original furnishings left. The exterior form was changed in 1885/86, but the changes were largely reversed during the reconstruction of the church, which was badly damaged in World War II, from 1951 to 1963. The last basic renovation took place between 1991 and 2002. Today's furnishings include an altar from a church in Neustädtel, a pulpit from the Nikolaikirche in Görlitz and various sculptures and paintings, mainly from the holdings of the Plauen Vogtland Museum. The organ, which was newly built in 1966, was extensively renovated from 1991 to 1996.

The church is used by the Lutheran St. Johannis parish of Plauen. Until 2020, it belonged to the Plauen church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, which has been merged into the Vogtland church district.