Annenkapelle (Görlitz)

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Anne Chapel
Anne's Chapel on Marienplatz

Anne's Chapel on Marienplatz

Data
place Goerlitz
builder Albrecht Goldfinch
Construction year 1508-1512
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '13.9 "  N , 14 ° 59' 11.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '13.9 "  N , 14 ° 59' 11.8"  E

The Annenkapelle at Görlitz Marienplatz was built between 1508 and 1512 by the council builder Albrecht Stieglitzer as a memorial chapel for the Görlitz merchant Hans Frenzel the Rich (1463-1526) . It was dedicated to St. Anne - Frenzel's patron saint. Later it was used as an orphan and penitentiary church. Today the former chapel is used as a gym and auditorium for the adjoining Annenschule.

history

Annenschule

In 1505 Hans Frenzel asked the city for a building site for a chapel, which he wanted to have built from his own assets. The city assigned the client a building site on the south-western city wall at the Frauentor opposite the Frauenturm . Construction work began on June 26, 1508, but it turned out to be difficult. An old, filled-in moat was found that belonged to the old castle, which was built there on the orders of Emperor Charles IV and demolished in 1474. The construction work was led by the council builder Albrecht Stieglitzer.

The construction cost 8,550 guilders and was also lavishly decorated inside. The artistically designed altar, which depicted Saint Anna and her family, was delivered as early as 1503 by the carver Hans Olmützer. On the outside of the chapel there are seven sandstone figures, including the patron saint of the builder Anna selbdritt and her husband Joachim, Maria with the child and Joseph , John the Baptist , the blessing Christ and Laurentius .

The chapel was consecrated on May 28, 1512, the Friday before Pentecost. Frenzel appointed six priests and used the chapel for private services until his death on September 16, 1526. He left his underage son Joachim (1515–1565), who in 1531 ceded the foundation assets and the chapel to the city council. The chapel remained in the possession of the city to this day, but was always neglected by it. In 1539 the city had the bells removed from the turret and hung on the Nikolaikirche and the Reichenbacher tower. Twenty years later, the magnificent altar was moved to St. Peter's Church, where it was destroyed in a fire in 1691. The turret on the east side of the chapel, which collapsed in a violent storm in 1562, was not rebuilt either. Only after a complaint by Frenzel's descendants did the dilapidated chapel get new windows in 1584 and a new shingle roof in 1597. At the beginning of the 17th century, further renovations took place in the chapel, so that in 1620 Margrave Johann Georg von Brandenburg , who at that time had his headquarters in Görlitz, had Reformed services celebrated in it.

When the city was besieged by the Electoral Saxon imperial troops during the Swedish occupation of the city in 1641, the Annenkapelle was also badly damaged, so that the city repaired the chapel after renewed pressure from Frenzel's descendants. In 1692 the college of priests moved into the building for 40 years. From 1730 the orphanage, later a penitentiary, adjoined the chapel, which they used as an orphan or penitentiary church. From 1845, the Catholic community held its services in the church, as their church was far outside.

In 1871 the chapel was fundamentally changed. A false ceiling was installed at the height of the cornice and a room on the ground floor that was later used as a gymnasium was set up. The pairs of windows based on the Gothic style on the ground floor were created during the renovation. The upper room served as an auditorium since 1875.

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Web links

Commons : Annenkapelle (Görlitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Speer: "Vita mercatoris". The autobiography of the long-distance trader Hans Frenzel (1463–1526) from Görlitz. Edition and commentary, in: Scholze, Dietrich (Ed.), Places and stations of religious activity. Studies on the church history of the bilingual Upper Lusatia (writings of the Sorbian Institute 48) . Bautzen 2009, p. 150-179 .
  2. ↑ Christian Speer: Piety and Politics. Urban elites in Görlitz between 1300 and 1550 (Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period 8) . Berlin 2011, p. 106-127 .
  3. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 771 f .
  4. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 772 .
  5. ↑ goerlitz.de: Annenkapelle . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 5, 2012 ; Retrieved January 13, 2012 .
  6. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 772 ff .
  7. ^ Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz, Volume 1, Half Volume 2 . 1st edition. Verlag des Magistrates der Stadt Görlitz, 1934, p. 774 .
  8. ↑ anne-augustum.de: General - History - From the church building for school multi-purpose building . Retrieved January 27, 2012 .