St. Anne's Chapel (Wallesweilerhof)

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The St. Anne's Chapel stands on the Wallesweilerhof between the St. Wendel districts of Bliesen and Winterbach in northern Saarland. Today's St. Anne's Chapel is the third chapel that was built on the Wallesweilerhof. The veneration of St. St. Anna has a centuries-old tradition in the region. The chapel is privately owned by a community of heirs.

St. Anne's Chapel on the Wallesweilerhof

history

The Wallesweilerhof belonged to Tholey Abbey until it was abolished on July 7, 1794. The existence of a chapel is documented as early as 1345 by a benefit granted by the Abbot of Tholey. The Wallesweilerhof was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . According to tradition, this chapel is said to be dedicated to St. Dedicated to St. Anna.

The chapel at that time probably no longer existed at the beginning of the 16th century. The existence of another St. Anne's Chapel is documented for the year 1508, which was located approx. 500 m away from Wallesweilerhof - on the site of today's Wendelinuspark - and which belonged to the parish of St. Wendel. This chapel was demolished towards the end of the 18th century. It is very unlikely that two chapels should have existed so close.

At the beginning of the 19th century the Wallesweilerhof was settled again. On November 29, 1848, a resident of Wallesweilerhof notarized, among other things, that his son should own the chapel he had built. However, the existence of a chapel on the Wallesweilerhof is not recorded in the original hand drawings of 1843 and the following period. The building was used as a stable in 1877.

In 1894, five residents of the Wallesweilerhof declared before the royal district court in St. Wendel that they were the owners of the chapel. It is noteworthy in this context that the pastor of Alsweiler, to whose parish the Wallesweilerhof belonged at the time, told the district court that the chapel was not used for worship purposes and that it did not fit into the property of the parish.

This chapel was demolished in 1960 because it was in disrepair. At the same place, the new, today's St. Anne's Chapel was built by the residents of Wallesweilerhof. On July 9, 1961, the new chapel was consecrated by the dean of the parish of St. Wendelin, Pastor Schwinden, with great sympathy from the population.

useful information

The St. Anne's Chapel has been a listed building since 1934 and is listed on the "List of Saarland Monuments" as an individual monument. In this context, the figures of St. St. Anna , St. Sebastianus , the stone relief of St. Mother of God as comforter of the afflicted and the bell (around 1500) to be mentioned. The age and origin of the figures and the stone relief are not known. From a style-critical point of view, the figures should be classified in the field of folk art due to their coarse design. The bell probably comes from the former St. Anne's Chapel, which stood on the site of today's Wendelinuspark until the end of the 18th century.

  • Interior view with a view of the altar

  • St. Anna

  • St. Sebastianus

  • Maria Comforter of the Afflicted

  • Bell jar

The door and window are designed in round arches. Two of the four lead-glazed windows each were donated by the civil parishes of Bliesen and Winterbach. In the chapel to the right of the entrance door there are 16 small wooden crosses with the names of the residents of the Wallesweilerhof who died in the two world wars or who died as a result of the war.

The St. Anne's Chapel is located on the traditional Wendelinus pilgrimage route and on the Jakobs pilgrimage route, which opened on October 22, 2010 . Both pilgrimage routes run on the same route between St. Wendel and Tholey. Coming from the Wendalinus basilica in St. Wendel, the St. Anne's Chapel is usually the first stop for pilgrims on their way to Tholey.

The chapel is open all day. Annually on the occasion of the patronage day of St. St. Anna a Catholic service as well as three devotions (Stations of the Cross, May and Rosary) take place in the chapel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The lost archive of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius in Tholey, Johannes Naumann, Tholey 2004
  2. ^ Bliesen - A village and its history, Hans-Josef Wagner 1984
  3. ↑ St. Anna - the story of a chapel, Museum St. Wendel 1993
  4. ↑ First hand plan from 1843, land registry office St. Wendel
  5. ↑ Land register documents from 1894, land registry Saarbrücken
  6. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung edition St. Wendel July 1961
  7. ↑ City and Country of St. Wendalin, Nikolaus Obertreis 1927.

Web links

Commons : St. Annen Chapel (Wallesweilerhof)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  E