St. Anna (Czarnowanz)

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St. Anne's Church

The Roman Catholic scrap wood church of St. Anna is a church in the village of Czarnowanz north of Opole . The church, which was built in the Baroque style at the end of the 17th century , is now part of the wooden architecture trail in the Opole region. In 2005 the wooden church burned down completely due to arson and was originally reconstructed by 2007.

location

The scrap wood church is located on a small hill south of the center of Czarnowanz directly on the Droga wojewódzka 454 voivodship road . The St. Anna Church is located in the Czarnowanz cemetery.

history

Czarnowanz and the monastery in the 18th century - in the foreground the wooden St. Anne's Church

A first church building on the hill already existed in the Middle Ages . There are many different legends about the origins of the church . A legend says that once a robber with a black beard (Polish: czarny was ) lived on the hill in a cave and hid his stolen gold treasures here. After he was converted to Christianity by messengers of the faith , he promised to repent for his deeds and to found a church on the spot, today's St. Anne's Church.

However, St. Anne's Church is only mentioned in the period of the Thirty Years War , after the villages of Frauendorf and Czarnowanz were destroyed by the Swedes in 1643. All houses and the monastery in Czarnowanz were destroyed, but St. Anne's Church remained undamaged.

In the course of the following decades, however, the church deteriorated more and more. After the provost of the Czarnowanzer monastery, Balthasar Gerbert von Hornau, received the permission of the bishop of Breslau in 1684 to build a new church, the old St. Anna church was demolished. Between 1684 and 1688, the master builder Christoph Mlensky built the new St. Anna Church for 200 thalers.

The Schrotholzkirche burned down completely on the night of August 19-20, 2005 and was then reconstructed in its original form by 2007.

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Anna (Czarnowanz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Route: St. Anna wooden church in Czarnowanz. In: Association of local history working groups in the district (ed.): Home calendar for the district of Oppeln 1926. Home room Carlsruhe OS (Schweidnitz) pp. 40–43

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Destruction of the Church (Polish)

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 51.8 ″  N , 17 ° 54 ′ 8.8 ″  E