St. Anna (Wädenswil)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Anna is located on the Wädenswil mountain on the old pilgrimage route to Einsiedeln .
Building history
After the Second World War , the Catholic residents of the Wädenswiler Berg wanted their own chapel. When the residents donated the necessary building ground for the chapel, the St. Anna chapel was built in 1955 according to plans by the architects Ferdinand Pfammatter and Walter Rieger with the help of parish members from Wädenswil and craftsmen from the See part of the village . The money needed to build the chapel was collected through donations, bazaars and “begging tours”. The chapel was consecrated on May 10, 1956 . In 1990 the St. Annakapelle was renovated.
The St. Anna chapel, together with the Brother Klaus chapel (Wädenswil-Au) and the St. Marien parish church, belong to the Roman Catholic parish of Wädenswil, which with its 6,083 members (as of 2017) is one of the larger parishes in the canton of Zurich.
Building description
Church tower and exterior
The chapel stands in an open field and is characterized by the towering gable roof, which is bent in the lower part . A sacristy was added to the southern side of the chapel . The church is crowned by a suggested roof turret , which is designed to be open, but does not have a bell. The front facade has three tall rectangular windows, which refer to the Trinity in their design and anticipate the monumental glass window in the choir of the chapel. The visitor enters the chapel under a canopy.
Interior and artistic equipment
The simple hall church is closed off by the soaring gable roof, on whose surfaces elements of a coffered ceiling are attached. A concrete arch that supports the roof structure marks the transition from the nave to the choir and suggests a rood screen .
As with all churches built by the architects Pfammatter and Rieger, the style elements typical of these two architects can also be seen in the St. Anna chapel: the altar is made of solid stone in the shape of a ship's hull, the windows on the long sides of the The chapels were decorated with elements of concrete Gothic inspired by France and the choir wall essentially consists of a monumental glass painting that bathes the room in colored light.
The glass painting comes from Father Karl Stadler from Engelberg Monastery . It consists of three window segments, the two outer ones flanking the middle one in the tradition of a winged altar . In the left window you can see Adam and Eve , who are threatened by the snake in Paradise . On the right side, at the height of the snake, the child Jesus, born at Christmas, can be seen as a counterpart. The fall of man in paradise is symbolically canceled by the birth of Christ . Opposite Eve, on the right-hand side , you can see Our Lady , vis-à-vis Adam, Mother Anna, the patroness of the chapel. In the center of the glass painting is the motif of Christ in the winepress , which is rarely shown in Switzerland : the tortured , bleeding Jesus with the crown of thorns stands in a winepress . Below the wine press the blood of Christ mixes with the wine of the pressed grapes and flows into the liturgical chalices . The conception of the glass window thematizes guilt and redemption in the outer windows and refers in the middle part to the Eucharist , in which the wine is transformed into the blood of Christ.
organ
In 1974 the organ building company Kuhn , Männedorf, built the pipe organ of the St. Anna Chapel. It is a mechanical instrument with 7 registers on two manuals including a pedal.
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literature
- Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980.
- Catholic parish St. Marien Wädenswil (ed.): Grüess Gott mitenand. Waedenswil.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Catholic parish St. Marien Wädenswil (ed.): Grüess Gott mitenand. P. 7.
- ^ Archives of the parish of St. Mary.
- ↑ Catholic Church in the Canton of Zurich (Ed.): Annual Report 2017 , p. 84.
- ^ Art guide through Switzerland , Volume 1. Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 2005.
- ^ Organ portrait on the website of the builder company. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '40.12 " N , 8 ° 39' 18.74" E ; CH1903: six hundred ninety-two thousand one hundred and sixty-one / 229626