St. Anna (Schöffau)

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St. Anna from the north

The Roman Catholic Expositurkirche St. Anna is in the Uffing district of Schöffau in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The Grade II listed church belongs as part of the parish of St. Michael Seehausen to deanery Benediktbeuern in the diocese of Augsburg . The address is Kirchplatz 1 .

history

For centuries, the residents of Schöffau had to visit the church on the island of Wörth in the Staffelsee , which was demolished in 1773. From 1623 a parish vicar was housed in Schöffau . In 1716 the place received a parish provisional , later an expositus . Until 1835 the diocese Schöffau were among the places Schöffau, Kirnberg , chess moss and Völlenbach , then told Bishop Ignaz Albert of Riegg the courts of Höldern , Luketsried and Spindler of Kuratie Schöffau to. Kalkofen followed in 1907 and Sallach in 1952 .

The first written evidence of a church in Schöffau is a miracle sheet from 1517 (see section Marienwunder ), this church partially burned down in 1552. The exact date of origin of today's St. Anna church is not known, but is probably around 1621. Remnants of the wall of the burned down church from the 14th / 15th centuries were incorporated into it. Century included: among other things, the Gothic floor plan of the choir , the remains of pointed arches in the windows there , the entrance portal and the design of the north wall. The tower also dates from this early period. In 1728 the vault was rebuilt, the roof structure was replaced in 1806/1807. From 1856 to 1897 the building was renovated and a second floor was added to the sacristy . The interior was redesigned in 1922/23 in the neo-baroque style. The church tower was reinforced with six tons of cement in 1970 because its fluctuations when the bells ringed were too great. An extensive renovation took place in 2007.

Description and equipment

inside view

The east- facing , late Gothic hall church is connected to the north of the 25-meter-high church tower with a half-hipped roof , made of arable stones . The slightly raised choir is slightly drawn in and covered by a cross vault made of bricks . The single nave nave , on the other hand, has a wooden barrel vault that hangs directly on the roof framework.

Fragments of Gothic frescoes on the north wall show parts of the Passion , on the south side remains of painted epitaphs from the 17th century were discovered. The baroque style ceiling fresco in the nave shows the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . Side pictures deal with the " joyful secrets ". Anton Niedermaier , a student of Franz Defregger , painted it in 1923.

The figure features based on the theme " Holy Family ": The well-crafted from Uffinger Paul Zwink mid-18th century high altar centrally shows an enthroned Madonna and Child from the 16th century, left the holy Joseph with the Child Jesus and the Holy Right Joachim with Daughter Maria. Until 1971, however, the latter two early Baroque father figures could be seen on the choir walls, on the altar there were figures of Saints Ignatius and Francis Xavier . The high altar is crowned by a canopy with God the Father in the midst of putti and angels. Hedwig Schedler-Simet from Murnau am Staffelsee painted the tabernacle picture of the Emmaus disciples .

Another image of Mary is now where the pulpit once hung. This wooden figure dates from the 14th century. The pulpit , which is no longer in existence, and the side altars were created by Schöffauer Kistler Anselm Bußjäger around 1800. The latter have classicist elements, they are consecrated to St. Anne (right) and John the Baptist (left). On the right side altar there is a 1.12 meter high, painted wooden figure of St. Anne from the 16th century. In 1910 it was expanded to become an Anna self-third . The left altar contains a baroque figure of John the Baptist.

A cartouche on the choir arch contains the opening words of Mary's hymn of praise : “ Magnificat anima mea Dominum ”. The cheeks of the church stalls were made by Martin Streicher from Tafertshofen (1780), they were preserved when the stalls were renewed in 1966.

  • High altar

  • Left side altar

  • Right side altar

  • Fresco "Assumption of the Virgin Mary"

The tower now contains four bells. The smallest, the weather bell, came from Habach to Schöffau in 1805 and added two more at the time. The latter was melted down in World War II . As a replacement, three new ones were cast on July 17, 1949.

organ

Double gallery with organ

The Schongau organ builder Andreas Handmann built a new organ with five registers in St. Anna in 1821 . When a new instrument was purchased in 1907/08, it came to the Rochus Chapel in Bad Kohlgrub . The new organ was built by the Munich organ builder Franz Borgias Maerz with seven registers on one manual and pedal . The instrument with pocket drawer and pneumatic performance and stop action has the following disposition :

manual
Principal 8th'
Covered 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : M / P, super octave coupling in the manual expanded to c 4

The organ was renovated in 1989 by Riegner & Friedrich .

Marian miracle

The Madonna, which hangs today in place of the pulpit, took place since the Middle Ages, a pilgrimage place. A pilgrimage letter from 1517 describing a miracle of Mary in Schöffau is kept in the Bavarian State Library : a four-year-old boy from Grafenaschau disappeared from herding cattle on the way home and could not be found again. The father turned to the Schöffauer Madonna and vowed a votive offering . Shortly afterwards, the father was sure that his son was alive and that he did not need to worry about him. Three days later, the child was found in a nearby moor and when asked who was feeding him, she replied: “The mother and a little bear.” However, since his mother had been in childbed for days, the lay judge's survival was attributed to Madonna.

At the end of the 17th century the pilgrimage to Schöffau fell sharply.

literature

  • Thomas Balk: Catholic Expositur Church St. Anna Schöffau. Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1991.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d List of monuments for Uffing am Staffelsee (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. P. 2, accessed on July 31, 2018 (PDF; 372 kB).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g The Church of St. Anna in Schöffau. In: uffing.de. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f St. Anna in Schöffau. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Michael Bernhard (Ed.): Organ database Bavaria online. Record 25456 and 25457. 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ The Schöffauer Marienwunder. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved August 5, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 48.3 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 29.5"  E