Annakirche (Aachen)
The Evangelical Anna Church is a former monastery church in Aachen . It has been a Protestant place of worship since 1802 .
Building history
In 1511 a Benedictine convent was founded in Aachen by Sibylle von Brandenburg , the widow of Wilhelm von Jülich-Berg . The monastery in what was then Scherpstrasse (today's Annastrasse) was consecrated in honor of St. Joachim and St. Anna . Compared to other Aachen monasteries, it was relatively small and insignificant and for the first few years did not have its own church. The monastery church could not be consecrated until 1532. A good 200 years later, the funds for a larger new church were available. The Aachen architect Johann Joseph Couven was appointed as the master builder . From the old church only parts of the foundation and the south wall were reused for the new building. The church was consecrated in 1749. It is a single-nave hall structure.
With the French occupation of Aachen in 1794, the St. Joachim and Anna monastery, like all other monasteries and monasteries, was dissolved. The religious freedom that was introduced soon after led to the desire of the Reformed and Lutheran Christians in Aachen for their own place of worship. As in other cities in the Rhineland , one of the dissolved monasteries was made available to the Protestant communities. So in 1802 the Anna Church became Protestant. A part of the adjoining monastery grounds was also given to the Protestant communities. Further buildings and land from the former monastery were purchased in the following years in order to build a school, teacher's apartments and a parish apartment there. After the union between Reformed and Lutherans in Aachen in 1837, the interior of the Anna Church was rebuilt. Among other things, a gallery was drawn in and a pulpit altar was installed, above which the organ had its place. At the beginning of the 20th century, a representative parish hall, a new parsonage and a Protestant elementary school, today's elementary school "Annaschule", were built in place of the old monastery building.
The years 1943/1944 saw the church almost completely destroyed by the effects of the war. The reconstruction in its old form took place in the years 1950–1951. The renovations of the 19th century in favor of an extensive orientation towards the couven building were not adopted. Only the west gallery, on which the organ was to be located in the future, was retained and enlarged. The interior furnishings are mostly from the post-war period.
From November 2012 to autumn 2013, the church was restored with a renovation of the natural stone facade, the glass renovation of the church windows, the renewal of the roof, a technical renovation of the heating and electrical systems and a redesigned color scheme by the architects Dewey + Blohm-Schröder from Viersen .
organ
In 1803 a used organ was bought, which was built by Christian Ludwig König in 1773 for St. Johann and Cordula with 20 stops on two manuals. The König student Fuhrmann moved the instrument and restored it in the process. A major renovation took place before 1876. The Walcker company built a new organ behind the old prospect in 1898 , which was destroyed in 1944.
The organ built in 1958 by the Aachen organ building company Georg Stahlhuth & Co mbH was replaced in 1994 by a new building by the organ building company Weimbs from Hellenthal . The abrasive loading -instrument has 34 registers on three manuals and pedals are distributed. The playing actions are mechanical. In the course of a general overhaul, an electronic setting system was installed in 2016. There are regular series of concerts with internationally known organists on the organ.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, III 16 ′ / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
The neighboring rectory is now used as a parish hall, while the large parish hall houses the administrative office and the superintendent of the evangelical church district of Aachen.
Church musician at the Anna Church
- from 1983 to 2008: Church music director Wolfgang Karius
- since 2008: Georg Hage
Web links
- Church in the city: The Anna Church in Aachen. Churches and community centers. Evangelical Church Community Aachen, accessed on February 27, 2015 .
- The bells of the Anna Church on wdr.de/Glockenpforte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emil Pauls : On the history of the monastery and the church of St. Anna in Aachen . In: Aachener Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein . 30th volume. Verlag der Cremersche Buchhandlung (C. Cazin), 1908, ISSN 0065-0137 , p. 62–74 ( digitized version [accessed February 27, 2015]).
- ↑ Nina Krüsmann: Anna's Church shines in new splendor. In: Aachener Nachrichten . Zeitungsverlag Aachen , September 15, 2013, accessed on February 27, 2015 .
- ↑ New buildings. 52062 Aachen, Anna Church. (No longer available online.) Weimbs Orgelbau GmbH, archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 27, 2015 .
- ^ Organ concerts. Evangelical Church Community Aachen, accessed on October 10, 2015 .
literature
- Uwe Rieske-Braun (Ed.): Protestants in Aachen: 200 years of Evangelical Anna Church . Einhard Verlag, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-936342-22-9 ( table of contents [accessed on February 27, 2015]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 24.3 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 52.4" E