St. Anna (Mönchengladbach)

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The St. Anna Church at Annakirchstraße 88 is in the Windberg district in the city of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built from 1909 to 1911. The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under no. A 024 on May 17, 1989 .

architecture

The floor plan of the three-aisled basilica in Windberg is a Latin cross with two side aisle yokes of the same height, which with their gable roofs intervene in the higher part of the nave . The concluding choir - with a semicircular rounded apse - has a vaulted, two-storey sacristy on its southwest side . The west tower, which has been moved to one side, is dominant on the north facade. The nave and aisles are treated simply.

The wall surfaces, structured by broad, buttress-like (stepped twice) vertical iron struts , with high arched windows, are only adorned by varying arched friezes and narrow cornices at the level of the inner gallery. The main entrance is to the north, on the gable side of the nave, which is framed by two buttresses , and is flanked by two side chapels. On the left is the baptistery and on the right the memorial chapel, covered by a five-pass window, which is raised as a four-storey bell tower with a copper-roofed pyramid helmet and arched sound openings coupled in pairs .

The main portal , which is accompanied on both sides by a narrow arched window, has rich sculptural decorations. In each of the double-stepped walls there is a protruding quarter column, which - continued over the vegetal-decorated capitals as a round strip - spans the arch. The arch field is filled with half-length Christ as Majestas Domini in a gesture of blessing, with the inscription "Salvator mundi" on both sides, and below the depiction a banner with "Venite adoremus". Four relief fields with the symbols of the four evangelists (man, lion, bull, eagle), enclosing a fifth (ship with swollen sails), stretch across the entire width of the portal, which is raised like a risalit and crowned by a triangular gable. In the gable is a medallion with a symbol of Christ (lamb with victory flag). On the upper floor of the front gable, set off by a cornice, is a niche figure in the middle with the representation of Anna with the Child Mary, flanked on both sides by a diamond-shaped window and a column connected by an arched frieze.

The gable field, emphasized by a surrounding cornice, shows a stepped (blend) group of three windows in the middle. For reasons of symmetry, on the left is a wall polygon that cites the west tower with a corresponding pyramid helmet. On the east side of the four- bay long house, yoke-wise ( upper storey ) exposed to light through two coupled arched windows connected by arched friezes, there is a side portal, also richly decorated in stone-carving style. Offset to the left and right is an arched window set into a rectangle, next to it an ox-eye framed by pilaster strips and arched frieze . The transepts, which protrude far beyond the side walls and are supported by three buttresses, vary the window motif of the longitudinal wall; In each of the gable windows there is a stepped group of three windows (analogous to the north facade window), which shows a small rectangular opening in the middle.

The apse opens four windows, each framed by pilaster strips. The interior of the church is determined by its spaciousness. Like those of the aisles, each of the four bays in the central nave is vaulted by a groin vault, the vaults of which grow out of the columns or pillars without capitals. The arched arcades on the ground floor correspond to the arched windows in the upper storey, which are separated by a simple cornice that runs through the entire room. In each of the two choir chapels there is a triforium gallery, on the sides facing the side aisles there are blind triforias, which in the left chapel form a decorative unit with a round window above. On the left corner pillar of the crossing is a life-size statue of St. Josef, opposite the namesake with Maria, both figures created in 1922 and 1925 by the sculptor Albert Pehle from Düsseldorf.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '17.4 "  N , 6 ° 24' 49.4"  E