St. Anna (Stendal)
The Church of St. Anna is the Catholic church in Stendal , the district town of the district of the same name in Saxony-Anhalt . The church named after St. Anna , the mother of Mary , is located at the Mönchskirchhof. It is the seat of the parish “St. Anna ”and the seat of the Stendal deanery , which is the northernmost in the Magdeburg diocese and the largest deanery in Germany in terms of area .
history
The church was presumably consecrated in 1461 and a Franciscan convent founded in the 15th century belonged to it . The Reformation was introduced in Stendal around 1540 and the monastery was dissolved.
Around 1700 Catholics came to Stendal again. These were soldiers for whom, from 1739 onwards, Stendal's catholic services were held in various secular rooms by clergymen from the Benedictine monastery Ammensleben . From 1784 the church “St. Anna ”. After the secularization of the Ammensleben monastery in 1804, Benediktus Greb, one of the Benedictine fathers from Ammensleben, settled in Stendal as a pastor and the parish of Stendal was founded. In 1907 the church was bought by the Catholic community. After the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Stendal increased due to the influx of refugees and expellees from the eastern regions of the German Empire . From 1967 to 1975 Leo Nowak , who later became bishop of the Magdeburg diocese, was vicar at “St. Anna ”. In 1973 the church was ravaged by a fire in which the roof with the then still existing roof turret and the organ were destroyed. During the time of reunification , contacts arose with the St. Bernward community in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony .
On February 1, 2007, the community association "Stendal - Bismark - Giesenslage - Goldbeck - Meßdorf - Osterburg" was established, to which, in addition to the Stendal church "St. Anna "also the churches" Heilig Kreuz "in Bismark ," Immaculate Conception "in Giesenslage ," St. Bernhard "in Goldbeck ," Hl. Mary of the Annunciation ”in Meßdorf ,“ St. Joseph ”in Osterburg ,“ St. Johannes Baptist ”in Seehausen and“ St. Elisabeth ”in Tangerhütte . On May 2, 2010, today's parish “St. Anna ”. The churches in Bismark, Giesenslage, Goldbeck, Messdorf and Tangerhütte have since been profaned . The 2011 census in the European Union showed that 3,110 of the 119,204 inhabitants of the Stendal district, or around 2.6%, belonged to the Roman Catholic Church.
Architecture and equipment
The single-nave brick church, now without a tower, was built in the late Gothic style.
Today's organ was installed in summer 2014. The instrument has 21 registers and 1068 pipes . It was built in 1870 by Thomas Joseph Frederick Robson for St. Andrews Church in Hastings , England . As a result of the demolition of this church in 1970, it was moved to a church in Prestbury, after which it was acquired in 2010 by the Dutch organ restorer Fokke-Rinke Feenstra ( Grootegast ) and restored and rebuilt in 2014 for the Stendal Church. It was consecrated in Stendal on October 12, 2014 by Bishop Gerhard Feige .
inside view
Gallery (June 2014, before the organ is installed)
Winged altar
Baptismal font
Pietà
Bell in the entrance room
North portal
Gravestone of the first pastor
See also
literature
- Katholische Propstei St. Anna, Stendal (Ed.): St. Anna zu Stendal. Stendal 2008.
- Day of the Lord (newspaper) No. 42/2014 of October 19, 2014, p. 10 (article on the new organ)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bonifatiuswerk der Deutschen Katholiken (Ed.): Diaspora-Jahrheft 2013/2014. Paderborn 2013, p. 73
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 25, 2014 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.
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=1410&idart=2469
- ↑ http://www.bistum-magdeburg.de/front_content.php?client=4&lang=5&idcat=2760&idart=14430
- ↑ http://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/osterburg/1081112_Katholische-Kirche-haben-zum-Verkauf.html
- ↑ Day of the Lord. (Newspaper) No. 30/2015 of July 26, 2015, p. 15
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 20 ″ E