St. Anna (Waltringhausen)

Exterior view of the St. Anna Chapel

The Catholic Chapel of St. Anna is a listed church building in Waltringhausen , a district of Anröchte in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The chapel is a plastered hall of two bays . The choir closes on three sides . The entrance is on the south side. According to an inscription on the leg of the choir, it was renewed in 1696. The relief plate on the west side with a depiction of St. Walburga , the patroness of the monastery of the same name in Soest, is the only remaining reference to the Augustinian convent Annenborn in Waltringhausen , which was absorbed by this monastery in 1408. The beamed ceiling inside is stuccoed. The colored windows were donated in 1868. A roof turret was added to the building .

Furnishing

• A baroque altar from 1714 by Phillipp Wasserfall from Hirschberg
• Figures on the altar by the sculptor Heusen
• A wooden Virgin from the second quarter of the 13th century. The original version has been preserved. The figure is a cult image with a strictly symmetrical structure.

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969.
• Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .

Web links

• Description and photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 18.
2. ^ Georg Dehio , Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann , Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 573 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 18.3 ″  E