Annakapelle (Habkirchen)
The Anna Chapel is a small pilgrim chapel in the Habkirchen district in the Mandelbachtal community in the Saar-Palatinate district of Saarland .
history
The chapel made of rubble stones was first mentioned in a document in 1239. The small hall building with a rectangular floor plan and elongated choir was formerly on the outskirts of the village of Mandelbach, which merged with Habkirchen in the 18th century. Until 1939, the three-day Anna market was held around the chapel on July 26th (Annatag). The importance of this festival for the region is proven by a bull of indulgence by Pope Clement XII. During the Second World War , the small church was almost completely destroyed in 1939/40 and only rebuilt in 1947 by the population in the baroque style . The choir was enlarged, the church hall lengthened and a second window was added on both sides of the chapel.
In 2004 and 2008 the church was extensively renovated as backwater damaged the foundation walls of the chapel.
architecture
The small hall church with a gable roof stands on a traffic island between Zweibrücker and Prälat-Roth-Straße. The chapel has two colorless arched windows on each side and two more windows in the choir. A square roof turret with a belfry , which was built in 1958, sits enthroned above the entrance to the west .
On the south-east side, on the plastered outer wall between the windows, there is a baroque sandstone cross from 1811. It was originally on the west side, but was moved from there in 1998 because the nearby road caused heavy road salt exposure in winter. In addition to the Mother of God , the cross also shows Saint Catherine of Alexandria .
Furnishing
In the center of the choir is a carved wooden altar on a pedestal, in the center of which there is a rustic wooden sculpture of St. Anne with the young Maria. The side altar was erected in 1745 on the left side of the chancel arch . The figure of Rudolf was carved by Gottfried Langenbahn in 2001, as a previous figure of the saint was lost around 1900. There are several other figures on small wall pedestals, including a Madonna and Child , Anthony of Padua with Child Jesus and a figure of St. Leonhard , which was created around 1500.
In addition, small wooden panels hang on the side walls as Stations of the Cross , which the Lorraine monastery in Neufgrange donated to the parish of Habkirchen in 1949 after the monastery had replaced its Stations of the Cross with new ones.
The chapel's small bell dates from 1512 and shows two reliefs of a seated bishop . It was hung in the new belfry in 1958.
Sculptures and wayside cross are under monument protection.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Peter Karn, Martin Klewitz and others (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1984, p. 336
- Manfred Pfeiffer: Pearl by the wayside: the St. Anna chapel in Habkirchen . Saarbrücken, 2009 (Church leader of the Mandelbachtal Tourist Office)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Monument List Saarland, Sub-Monument List Saar-Pfalz-Kreis ( Memento from 5 May 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Landesdenkmalamt Saarland, p. 47 (PDF)
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '59.5 " N , 7 ° 8' 7.8" E