Category:St Anna Church, Catholic pilgrimage church in Haigerloch, Germany
St Anna Church is a pilgrimage church with late Baroque style, featuring a central hall and flattened dome. The interior spaces are designed with reddish stucco marble elements and ornamental details that draw the eye upward.
St. Anna was built from 1753 to 1755 on behalf of Prince Joseph Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, replacing a chapel from the early 15th century. The design is attributed to Tiberius Moosbrugger, with Christian Großbayer as site manager; Johann Michael II Feichtmayr did the stucco, Meinrad von Au the ceiling frescoes, and Feichtmayr and Johann Georg Weckenmann the three altars of 1755. The organ by Hieronymus Spiegel dates from 1756.
The church is named after Saint Anne and draws visitors who come to venerate this saint. The interior is shaped by three altars that guide the prayer experience of pilgrims.
The church stands on a projecting hill terrace at the northeastern edge of the Oberstadt, without a tower but visible from afar. It is reached on foot through the upper town; the baroque Kaplaneihaus is linked to it by a path running from portal to portal, and both are enclosed by a courtyard wall with pillar-framed busts of saints and vases. The west portal, renewed in simplified form in the 19th century, is flanked by columns.
The nave fresco carries a chronogram dating it to 1755 and shows Prince Joseph Friedrich pointing with his left arm at a ground plan of the church, beside which stands a St Anne reliquary. The high altar's carved image of Anna selbdritt is older than the building: a seated Madonna from the second half of the 14th century.
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