St. Anna Chapel (Allfeld)
The Catholic St. Annakapelle near Allfeld , a district of Billigheim in the Neckar-Odenwald district in northern Baden-Württemberg, is the former parish church of the village and now the cemetery chapel . Until the beginning of the 19th century, it was the destination of a regional pilgrimage to St. Anne.
location
The chapel is located about one kilometer south of Allfeld in the middle of the Allfeld cemetery in the Schefflenz valley.
history
Originally the church was dedicated to St. Kilian , the patron saint of the Diocese of Würzburg , to which Allfeld belonged until around 1810/15. When a parish was established in Allfeld on November 23, 1404 , the Kilian's Church was designated as a parish church.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the church was largely rebuilt. The windows on the long sides of the chapel date from this period.
St. Anne has been named as the church patroness since the 16th century . On the feast of St. Anne (July 26th) the church was the destination of many believers from the area. Several papal bulls of indulgence from the 18th century, the last of March 29, 1800, granted complete indulgences for participating in the pilgrimage . At times the number of pilgrims exceeded the number of Allfeld residents by ten times.
Towards the end of the 18th century, the celebration of Anna's festival (like many other pilgrimages) was pushed back more and more by the secular and spiritual authorities. The main aim was to increase the productivity of the population. Each pilgrimage ultimately led to several days of absence from work.
In the following period, indulgences were granted for the parish church of St. Georg , built directly in Allfeld in 1742/43, and the feast of St. Anna celebrated in the parish church on the Sunday after July 26th. Since then, the church has only been used as a cemetery chapel and is now owned by the political community.
description
The chapel is a rectangular building with a gable roof and ridge turrets . The building appears closed from the outside, but inside is divided into a choir and nave by a triumphal arch . The choir occupies the eastern half of the chapel, the nave occupies the western half. A flat wooden ceiling has been drawn in in both rooms, and a wooden gallery on the west gable of the nave , which is only accessible via an outside wooden staircase. Ground-level entrances to the church are on the west side and in the south wall of the choir area. The southern entrance still has Romanesque forms.
The altar shows St. Anna with Joachim and Maria . The original of the altarpiece was stolen in the mid-1990s. Today only a photograph of the picture can be seen in the altar.
On the left wall of the choir arch there is a painting of St. Wendelin .
The church bell dates from 1925 and has been in the chapel since 1957.
On the outside there is the grave slab of the cellar von Allfeld and court master von Billigheim, Melchior Krebs, who died in 1594 .
literature
- Josef Stephan: St. Annakapelle and St. Annafest in Allfeld in bygone times . Mosbach 1942.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Findings examination by the restorer from October 1st, 2008
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 43.2 " N , 9 ° 14 ′ 42.4" E