Anna Chapel (Roding)
The Anna Chapel , also St. Anne's Chapel in Roding is a Roman Catholic chapel ; it belongs to the Rodingen parish of St. Pankratius . The Anna chapel previously served as a cemetery chapel . The Rodinger Dance of Death , a fresco inside that interprets the dance of death theme in a rare way, is significant . Together with the adjacent Josephi Chapel , the Anna Chapel is popularly known as the " Karner ".
History and buildings
The Anna Chapel was built on the gable side on the south side of the long-standing Josephi Chapel in the 16th century; It was first mentioned in 1580. After the Thirty Years War it was largely renewed. The chapel served as a cemetery chapel for a long time, the wall of the old Rodinger cemetery at the parish church of St. Pankratius formed its rear wall.
The chapel has only one, low, storey and is covered with a flat gable roof made of copper. On the eaves side, towards the church square, a large, centrally positioned gate leads into the chapel, with an arched window on both sides . On the south side of the gable, tombstones commemorate the deceased Rodinger.
inner space
The fresco on the back wall of the former cemetery wall - the Rodinger dance of death - made the Anna Chapel widely known. A dance of death is shown in a rare form: Death dances with all classes of society together, instead of just with individual people, as is usual. Death can be seen twice: as a crossbowman, standing above the dancers, and as a minstrel, leading the procession. In a kind of step dance one sees in the order of their rank: the pope , the emperor , a cardinal , the duke , the bishop ; behind the pastor , monks , knights , an official , a citizen with a child. Between the dancers, skeletons keep appearing as symbols of death. Above the solemn dancers, surrounding the crossbowman death, one sees peasants and children playing, one of whom is gripped by a death figure. Under the fresco there is a badly weathered inscription that reads: “ Poor and rich - everything is the same ”. To the right above the dance of death you can see two church buildings, probably the old parish church of St. Gallus and the St. Pankratius chapel, the predecessors of today's parish church of St. Pankratius. Another fresco shows the Last Judgment , it is based on a picture by Christoph Schwartz .
Both frescoes are reminiscent of the earlier function of the Anna Chapel; there are two wall niches next to the altar, which underlines the impression of a cemetery chapel. An alabaster figure about half a meter high by Andreas Faistenberger from Munich, made in 1709, represents Maria Immaculata . It comes from a legacy of the Rodingen clergyman Thomas Blümelhuber, who worked at the Old Chapel (Regensburg) .
literature
- Catholic parish office Roding (ed.): Churches of the parish of St. Pankratius Roding and Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church . Roding without a year, pp. 11–13
- Elisabeth Vogl: “Quodfuimus, estis; quod sumus, eritis! ”- On the representation of the three living and three dead in the parish church of the Assumption in Chammünster and on the dance of death in the St. Artna chapel in Roding . In: Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (Hrsg.): Upper Palatinate and Bohemia - encounters across borders. Festschrift for the 32nd Bavarian North Gauge Day in Furth im Wald . Regensburg 1998, pp. 205-213. Article on the web , PDF document
Web links
- Cemetery chapel . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- Roding Baptistery . City of Roding
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Josef Nusser: 1100 years of Roding parish. Churches, chapels and other institutions - 896 - 1996 , Roding 1997
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 47.2 " N , 12 ° 31 ′ 4" E