St. Anna (Schwabelsberg)
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St. Anna is a secular church in Schwabelsberg, a district of Kempten. The building on Schwabelsberger Weiher was converted into farm buildings and residential houses in the 1950s. It is a listed building .
history
The history of the church is closely linked to that of Schwabelsberg. In 1518 Schwabelsberg Castle, a 14th or 15th century castle, was acquired by Prince Abbot Rudolf von Raitnau . In 1537 it became the seat of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Anne's Monastery for a short time . Around 1658, under Prince Abbot Roman Giel von Gielsberg , the castle was converted into a monastery by Johann Serro : the choir was vaulted and a new tower was built for the church.
The earlier appearance is described in a portrait of Gielsberg in the Prince's Hall of the Prince's Residence . It shows a church with five window axes with a choir tower under an onion dome. After the destruction of the monastery in Kempten in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War , the monastery was the stiftkemptischen in Schwabelsberg to 1674 seat convention . The convent then moved into the largely completed and newly built residence in the old monastery district. The dilapidated St. Anna chapel was rebuilt under Prince Abbot Engelbert von Syrgenstein .
description
After the demolition of the monastery, only the south-facing nave on the road to Heiligkreuz has been preserved. In 1956, the ship was converted into commercial and two-story residential buildings. The structure of the north facade corresponds roughly to the Franciscan monastery church of St. Magnus in Lenzfried : a round-arched entrance between round windows, a group of three round-arched panels under the two circular windows of the gable. Four high arched window axes were set up on the long sides. In the middle window axis on the south side, a slightly offset wall piece can be seen, which is interpreted as a possible approach to a church tower.
A round arched passage is walled up in the partition wall against the residential building at the south end, and on the upper floor there is a later subdivided large room. A pressed cloister vault with two to three large and small stitch caps can indicate a gallery . At the top there is a fresco with God the Father and putti in a rectangular stucco field . The fresco, like the monastery vault, dates from around 1750/60.
The former nave is a listed building (file number D-7-63-000-277)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 138.
- ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg: City of Kempten (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.85 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 122 f .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 33.8 " N , 10 ° 17 ′ 29" E