St. Anna (Weilbach)

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St. Anna in Weilbach

St. Anna is a Roman Catholic branch church in Weilbach in central Swabia , a district of Pfaffenhausen . It is a branch church of St. Stephan in Pfaffenhausen. The titular festival is Mother Anna's festival on June 24th.

location

The church stands about one to two meters higher on the northern edge of the village and is surrounded by farms.

history

Altar of St. Anna

There is evidence of a chapel in Weilbach as early as 1167. Abbot Isingrim donated a relic to the church when he gave his great relic. Pope Innocent III mentioned the place and the church in a letter of protection in 1209 as property of the Ursberg monastery . The noble family of mirrors bought in 1466 the monastery from the village and the church. Up to this point in time the pastors were sent from Ursberg, from 1466 from Pfaffenhausen. The building from the 15th century has neo-Gothic furnishings and stained glass windows from the late 19th century. In 1947 an interior and in 1959 an exterior renovation took place.

Building description

The late Gothic building has a drawn-in, three-sided closed choir. The nave with four axes and the choir have flat ceilings. The windows have pointed arches. There are relatively small windows on the oblique axes in the choir and in the eastern part of the side walls. The east part of the nave has two windows, in the south there is a pointed arched door with a corresponding niche inside. The door leaf is neo-Gothic. In the west there is a simple one-story gallery . A pointed arch window in the south wall is overlapping. In the north above the gallery there is a cantilever niche. The outside simple church has a uniform gable roof . The portal is chamfered . In the apex of the choir there is a walled-up pointed arch window, at the east end of the north wall of the nave there is a flat wall projection. The roof turret over the west gable dates from the 19th century. The base has a square plan, its upper part has beveled corners. The cornice of the pointed arch windows is profiled, the helmet is covered with slate. The vestry south of the choir outside combined lancet windows, a band-shaped Traufgesims and a hipped roof . Inside it has a flat ceiling.

Furnishing

There are neo-baroque frescoes in the church . On the choir ceiling the papal crown and the papal keys are depicted within a halo, on the ceiling of the nave there is an Anna herself painted freely after Leonardo da Vinci . The ceiling and the gallery parapet are decorated with decorative paintings. A renovation inscription on the gallery parapet reads RESTAURIERT JOSEF MAYER 1947 .

The wooden neo - Gothic altar has a carved crack . The basic color is red, the profiles are gold and blue. The figures in the central niche represent Saint Anne with the Child of Mary, Saint Joachim on the left and Saint Joseph on the right . The sculptor Ferdinand Preckle left the signature P on the base of the Anna figure. The neo-Gothic choir stalls are gray-green with red profiles. The lay chairs with tail cheeks and raised fields were probably created towards the end of the 18th century. The mounted wooden crucifix probably dates from the first half of the 19th century. The Stations of the Cross and the wooden figures are also neo-Gothic. A painted coat of arms carved on the death shield on the north wall of the choir bears the inscription ANNO DOMINI MDXXXX DIE EDEL UND FEST GOTTFRID SPIEGEL ZU WEILBACH THE GRACE OF GOD . An already heavily worn epitaph made of red marble with a coat of arms relief in a round arch panel in the upper part is set into the entrance floor. In the lower part, an illegible inscription is engraved in a rectangular panel. According to J. Sesar, this plate belonged to the tomb of one of the brothers Christoph and Matthäus Schmidt, who were Weilbach pledges from 1656 to 1681. A memorial plaque made of Solnhofen limestone for those who fell from 1805 to 1815 was placed on the left of the entrance in 1833.

  • Ceiling fresco of an Anna herself in the nave

  • Neo-Gothic wooden figure

  • Station of the cross

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 512-513 .

Web links

Commons : St. Anna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 30.2 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 30.5 ″  E