St. Anna Chapel (Wohlen)
The St. Anna Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in Wohlen in Switzerland . It is located around 250 meters north of the St. Leonhard parish church , on the main road in the direction of Niederwil .
The chapel probably dates back to the end of the 12th century. The building that exists today dates from 1513/14 and was consecrated on December 6, 1515 in honor of Saint Anne by the auxiliary bishop of Constance . The chapel was damaged in the iconoclasm of 1529 and then used for other purposes; it was not consecrated until 1576.
The chapel is presented in a simple late Gothic style. A slightly protruding, polygonal choir adjoins the nave with its arched entrance door . A roof turret with a six-sided needle helmet rises on the steep gable roof . The bell was cast in Zurich in 1513 and bears the inscription "Ave Maria gratia plena Domenicus tecum".
The winged altar , which the parish acquired from a Lucerne goldsmith in 1894, is a particular treasure of the chapel . The altar, made in the early 16th century, was originally in the Hergiswald pilgrimage church . In a shrine divided into three parts by carved foliage arches , it contains the figures of saints Leodegar , Mauritius and Paul made of lime wood . On the inside of the wings, the saints Catherine and Barbara are depicted as a bas-relief, on the outside the Virgin and Archangel Michael are painted .
literature
- Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV (Bremgarten district). Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 , p. 422-425 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '13 " N , 8 ° 16' 40.9" E ; CH1903: 663.42 thousand / 245091