St. Anna (Kloster Wald)

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St. Anna Monastery Church

The Roman Catholic monastery church St. Anna is located in Kloster Wald , a district of Ottobeuren in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The monastery church is a listed building.

history

Already in 1170 there was a chapel of St. Marx im Walde below the current position . This chapel was demolished in 1594 and rebuilt on the slope. In 1681 the Benedictine convent of St. Anna was founded. The construction of the monastery began in 1685 according to the plans of Father Lambert Katan. However, the existing building was built in 1714 according to plans by Father Christoph Vogt. The monastery church was consecrated in 1729. The Benedictine convent showed war damage in 1800 and was closed in 1805 in the course of secularization . The church was renovated in 1954.

Building description

The monastery church is located in the north wing of the four-wing complex of the monastery. In the middle of the north wing, the monastery church protrudes on three axes. The sanctuary is strongly drawn in and closed in a semicircle. The sacristy ambulatory is located around the chancel with lancet vaults . This is covered with a pent roof. The nave is covered with a gable roof and consists of six axes with mirror vaults. A two-storey gallery is located on the south side of the church.

The church contains a number of mounted wooden figures. From the middle of the 18th century the figures of St. Maurus and St. Placidus. In the nun's choir there is a headdress Madonna from the second half of the 18th century. The unmounted crucifix was created around 1500. The Way of the Cross with 15 stations dates from the 18th century. The 15th station of the cross is not in the monastery church, but in the cloister corridor. The pulpit was made around 1800 and is crowned with the figure of the Evangelist Mark .

Furnishing

The altar is a marbled wooden structure and was created in 1729. This is flanked by pilasters and diagonally placed free columns. On the altar are the life-size wooden figures of St. Benedict and the Scholastica . In the curved extension of the altar is the Heart of Jesus, surrounded by angels and putti.

See also

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 231-232 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-186-44 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  2. ↑ a b c Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 231
  3. ^ Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 232.

Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 21.95 "  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 59.16"  E