Saint Anna chapel in Chełmsko Śląskie, Catholic chapel in Chełmsko Śląskie, Poland.
Saint Anna chapel is a Baroque chapel on the western slope of Mount Róg at 575 m, 1.5 km from Chełmsko Śląskie. The rectangular stone-and-brick building has a single nave, a polygonal chancel from 1785, and a neo-Gothic tower from 1890 on the nave axis. The entrance is in the side wall; the interior holds a baptismal font, pews, and a modern painting of Saint Anne.
Children asked the owner of the wood on 8 June 1699 for permission to build a small hermitage chapel there, and the site soon drew pilgrims. The present Baroque chapel dates from 1722, designed by M. Jentsch of Jawiszów, with a polygonal chancel from 1785 and a neo-Gothic tower added in 1890. It belonged to the Cistercians of Krzeszów until 1810, was looted after 1945, and was restored from 1986, being consecrated again on 5 July 1998 by Bishop Tadeusz Rybak.
Every year on Saint Anne's feast day the chapel draws pilgrims from the surrounding area, the whole Legnica diocese and the Czech Republic. In summer eucharistic liturgy is celebrated here. The chapel stands among Stations of the Cross, and a processional way laid out in the 18th century leads up from Chełmsko Śląskie, marked by slender columns on pedestals, some still bearing figures of Saint Anne.
The chapel stands 1.5 km from Chełmsko Śląskie on the western slope of Róg at 575 m, reached on foot via the blue trail from the village that follows the 18th-century processional route. The spring of St Anna lies about 100 m away in the forest, at the end of a forest path leading to a rectangular stone wellhead.
About 100 metres from the chapel, a forest path ends at a stone-lined spring, the St Anna spring. Its low wall carries the initials and digits FW 18 and AW 19, giving the year 1819, while a stone further on is cut with HGN 1700 and MIPL 1857.
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