St. Anna am Masenberg

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St. Anna Church

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Anna is a Gothic church at the foot of the Masenberg in Joglland, Austria . It is located in St. Anna, a district of Flattendorf and thus belongs to the Hartberg area .

History and architecture

inside view

The church was built in the middle of the 15th century and rebuilt in 1499. In 1788, as part of the church reform, Emperor Joseph II ordered the church to be closed and dissolved. In order to avoid the closure, an attempt was made to build a parish of their own, but the required parish had only 256 instead of the required 700 souls. And the establishment of their own parsonage at the expense of the surrounding farmers had overwhelmed them. The church fell into a deep slumber and was spared from being baroque. An entry in the parish chronicle from 1930 says that the church is "left to decay" . Only an interior renovation in 1976 and an exterior renovation in 1982 restored the appearance of the church.

The baroque high altar was built in 1758 and has sacrificial portals on the side . The middle of the altar is a statue of Anna herself third from the 15th century in front of the divine sun.

The late Gothic side altar from 1522 is a shrine altar. The lower, three-part part shows the three wise men from the Orient in the middle , and on the left St. Wolfgang with a model of a church in his hand. Pope Urban is depicted on the right . In the middle of the upper part there is a group of three Anna herself. The altar wings show St. Florian and St. George .

There is a small positive organ on the gallery . This was built in 1771 by Caspar Mitterreither for the village church Schölbing near Hartberg, since 1877 it has been in the church of St. Anna am Masenberg.

Annabründl

Annabründl, version from 1983

The Annabründl is a small fountain near the church. The following legend is told by Annabründl :

"In addition to the Church of St. Anne on Anne Kogel came a cold, refreshing source to light. Because of the healing powers of water were told soon in the entire region of this miraculous source the most exciting events. From far and wide people came here to cure to Several gypsies came here with their blind horses. They washed the horses' eyes with the water of the miraculous spring, after which the animals saw again as if they had never been blind. However, the spring had run dry at that moment. Years later Spring water gushed again from the ground near the church. And this water is also said to have a special healing power. The miraculous spring is sought out again and again by people who hope to be cured here. "

In 1982, the spring was rediscovered and redesigned as part of the restoration. The stone carvings of St. Anna with the child Maria comes from the West Styrian sculptor Alfred Schlosser .

literature

  • Hartberg Parish (Ed.): 850 Years of Living Hartberg Parish . Festschrift. 2007, p. 74, 180-181 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b parish gazette of the parish Hartberg . No. 7-8 , 1999, pp. 5 .
  2. ↑ Gottfried Allmer: The organ positive in East Styria. (PDF; 915 kB) In: Principal - 12. Principal - Verein der Orgelfreunde Südostösterreichs, p. 16 , accessed on September 18, 2011 .
  3. ^ Johann Schleich: The most beautiful East Styrian legends . Schleich Publishing House
  4. ↑ Flattendorf, St. Anna am Masenberg, Annabründl , say.at
  5. ^ Hans Wilfinger: Religious land monuments and places of worship in the parish Hartberg . Ed .: Men's Movement of the Hartberg Parish. Hartberg 1993, p. 83-84 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 36 "  N , 15 ° 53 ′ 48"  E