Anna Column (Innsbruck)
The Anna column is in Innsbruck's Maria-Theresien-Straße .
It got its name in 1703 after Annatag ( July 26th ), on which the last of the Bavarian troops invaded in the course of the War of the Spanish Succession in Tyrol were expelled (" Bayrischer Rummel "). In gratitude, the estates vowed to erect a monument in 1704.
This was created by the Trentino sculptor Cristoforo Benedetti from red Kramsacher marble. There are four statues of saints on the base:
- In the north, St. Anna , the mother of Mary.
- In the west Kassian , the patron saint of the diocese of Brixen .
- In the east Vigilius , patron saint of the Diocese of Trento .
- In the south Georg with kite and lance, then and since 2006 again patron saint (now next to St. Joseph).
These four are exaggerated by the column with the statue of the Crescent Madonna .
On July 26, 1706, the monument was blessed by Prince-Bishop Kaspar Ignaz Graf Künigl of Brixen . It has been restored several times over the centuries. In 1958, mainly for conservation reasons, the statue of the Virgin was replaced by a copy and the original was given on loan to the St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey , where it is placed in a side chapel of the Fiecht collegiate church (near Schwaz ) above the St. Mary's altar.
On October 10, 2009, the figures of saints on the base of the monument were replaced, the originals of the figures of saints are now on the first floor of the old country house in Innsbruck.
St. Anna
Mary statue,
since 1958
Original statue of the Virgin Mary Benedetti, 1706
Anna column from the south, with the north chain
From the south (from left to right): Kassian, Georg, Vigilius
Historical view (before 1893)
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Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 56 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 39" E