Trinitatiskirche (Annaberg-Buchholz)
The St. Trinitatis Hospital Church in Annaberg is a classicistic hall church in the Saxon Ore Mountains . The church was built on the site of the previous building, which burned down in 1826, in front of the former Wolkensteiner Tor, which formed a complex with the hospital and the town church. A center for contemporary art is to be built in the church, which has been vacant for a long time. The Kät , the largest folk festival in the Ore Mountains, developed from the pilgrimage to St. Trinity, launched in 1519 .
Building history
The first church at the current location was probably built a few years after the city was founded in 1496. In 1517 the building can be traced for the first time in chronicles. A new church was built from 1526 to 1529, which was destroyed in the great fire of 1604. The reconstruction took place in economically difficult times in a very simple form, so that as early as 1684–86 a new church building in the Renaissance style was rebuilt. Destroyed again by fire in 1826, the church was rebuilt in a classical style. The building was enlarged and received a roof turret, which was modeled on the former tower of St. Anne's Church . In 1864 the Bärmig organ, which is now a listed building, was installed in the church . The outer pulpit to the cemetery from the previous building was included in the new building.
Annaberger Gottesacker
The cemetery in front of the city walls was laid out in 1507 and surrounded with a wall ten years later. Previously, the dead were buried at the main church within the city. At the instigation of the sovereign Duke George the Bearded , the cemetery was consecrated in 1519 with the sacred soil of Campo Santo in Rome . In the apostolic decree of Pope Leo X , the hospital and the adjoining church are declared a “holy field” with “the same rights as the hospital chapel and campo santo in Rome”. After the Reformation (1539), the pilgrimage to St. Trinity became a Protestant festival of the dead and later a folk festival that took place two weeks after Pentecost. From this the Annaberger Kät developed (presumably spoken from Trinitatis / Dreifaltigkeit - Dreifaldichkat, through loss of syllables Kat or Kaat emerged), the largest festival in the Ore Mountains. The old cemetery was closed in the 1950s. When the central bus station was built in 1968–1973, part of the site was built over, and the rest of the cemetery was later converted into a park. Numerous old and valuable tombstones were removed. The monument to Barbara Uthmann is in a deplorable condition. The crypts and graves near the legendary cemetery linden tree (said to have been planted with the branches facing down), which are popularly known as "Schwibbogen" because of the arch architecture and after the owner of a crypt, the merchant Christoph Gülden († June 21, 1604) and his wife Bengina Gülden († February 11, 1603) were called "Güldener Schwibbogen" are left to decay.
"Trinity Vision"
With the secularization of the adjacent cemetery, the Trinity Church lost its main function and since then has only been used sporadically for devotions and church services and in the 1980s as a youth church. Burglaries and a fire inside the vacant church hit the building heavily. In 2006 an emergency backup was carried out.
The plan was to establish a center for contemporary art in the building, which would build on the collection of an art collector from Freiberg and which would include works by Saxon artists such as Michael Morgner . In 2008, exhibitions and events were held in the building. Since 2009 the church building - with what is probably the only outer pulpit in Saxony - and its surroundings have been left to decay.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 0 ′ 33.9 ″ E