St. Anna (top)

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St. Anna in treetop

St. Anna is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Upper Swabian Wipfel , a district of Stetten . Until 1923 it belonged to the parish of St. Stephan in Mindelheim . However, the church community has been pastored by Erisried since the 17th century . A chapel is already recorded on a cadastral sheet from the early 19th century. In 1899 this building was increased by one meter and got new windows. It was extensively restored from 1948 to 1949.

Building description

The chapel in the middle of the hamlet faces west. It is flat and has a semicircular end. There are two arched windows on each of the long sides, and a rectangular door to the east. The exterior has a profiled eaves cornice, on the east gable there are profiled bevels as well as cornice pieces on both sides at the base. Above the gable is a roof turret with a square base and an octagonal top with a pointed helmet . This has small arched openings on the main sides and is covered with sheet metal.

Interior

Interior view of St. Anna

The ceiling picture from 1949 by G. Schwank shows St. Anna. The altar , created around 1730 and made of marbled wood, has a new box style . In the middle of the structure is a round arch niche with a tabernacle flanked by half-columns as a base. In the niche there is a wooden figure of St. Anna Selbdritt . The columns are staggered on both sides, the convex axes are receding and have arched shell niches. There are peasant statuettes of St. Sebastian and Wendelin inside. On the very outside there are recessed columns, above them a cranked entablature with a curved frieze. Above the central niche is a gable with a segmented cornice and a representation of the Holy Spirit. A small altar cross from the 18th century is also placed there.

Whole figures cut off at the bottom, showing Saints Blasius and Augustine and created around 1500, have new attributes. A crucifix from the 16th or 17th century and a scourged savior on a console with rocailles from the mid-18th century are also located in the chapel.

  • Half figure of St. Augustine

  • Half figure of St. Blasius

Web links

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

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 523 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '18.1 "  N , 10 ° 27' 25.6"  E