Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

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The abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a parish church, formerly abbey, located in Saint-Jean-Saverne, in the French department of Bas-Rhin. Built in late Romanesque style in the third quarter of the 12th century for the nuns of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Saverne, it then has an aspect similar to that of the contemporary, except that there is no tower, the nave opening directly on the outside by a facade with Italian. In fact, the church seems to have been built with a single jet and had not experienced any major changes until the late 1720s, when the nave was enhanced and the facade masked by the building of a bell tower.

Following the French Revolution and the subsequent disappearance of the convent, the church was bought by a community of citizens to become the village's new parish church. Ranked a historic monument in 1840, the church was later the subject of major restoration work during the 19th century. The most important of these were the erection of foothills in 1874, the collapse of the ground threatening to cause the walls to collapse.

Besides its architectural interest, the church also contains...