St. Anne's Church, Vienna

The Anna Church is a Roman Catholic religious order in the Church Anna Gasse 3b in the 1st district of Vienna Inner City and is considered one of the most beautiful baroque churches in the city.

Next to the church is the St. Annahof, a well-known event and residential buildings. After the St. Anna Church Anna alley was named in 1750, formerly called Pippingerstraße; this stretch of road was first documented in 1290 named.

History

In 1415, the Viennese Elisabeth Wait Auer bought the land where small buildings stood on Kärntner Straße 37. With a foundation in 1418 there was a Pilgrim house and in Annagasse 3a a pilgrim hospital was built. A century later, the Anna church was built as a four-bay late-Gothic hall church with buttresses and a roof turret on the western gable and inaugurated in 1518 in the Anna Gasse 3b. In 1531 the buildings were handed over to the Order of the Clares, as a substitute for the terms of the monastery of St. Clara at the Albertina Platz. In 1582 the building of Rudolph II were handed over to the Jesuits, who from 1627 to 1629 on Kärntner Straße 37 corner Anna Gasse 3 and 3a and John Alley 4 and 4a established a new Jesuit novitiate. From 1629 to 1633 there was a reorganization of the early Baroque Church of St. Anna, the Gothic choir concluded the roof turret and the vaults were broken off, and the hall building was extended by two bays in the building of the novitiate to the west. These were made chapel fixtures between the buttresses, a Neueinwölbung of Saalbaues and the establishment of a church tower in the east of the choir with a flat-building in the basement. The extended church was inaugurated in the presence of Emperor Ferdinand II on November 20, 1633.

In 1694 was made by Leopold I, the establishment of a brotherhood to St. Anne, which behind the church hall as cultivation in 1696, a highly baroque chapel of St.. Francis Xavier was born, which was established in 1709, and is now named Anna chapel. 1716 the whole church was refurbished under the direction of Christoph exchange SJ ( 1673-1731 ). On June 25, 1747 burned by lightning, the tower and the roof at the church. The vault held, the roof was restored makeshift and so you could celebrate the Annafest in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa in the church on July 26 the same year. In 1748 the tower was rebuilt and in 1751 the blackened interior of the church was renovated, retaining Le Grand, as it was called at that time Daniel Gran, the late baroque ceiling frescoes and the altarpiece is created. 1840 was allowed to renew Grans frescoes by Franz Geyling in darker colors.

In 1773, the Jesuit order was canceled. The Anna Church has now served by secular clergy and from 1783 fairs were held in French. In 1774 the novitiate was rededicated in a school building, and was from 1786 to 1876 the headquarters of the Academy of Fine Arts. This building was located in the old St. Annahof.

In 1887 again been aborted the entire complex of St. Annhofes including the two bays of the former extension of the Anna church. In the new building there are since several meeting and shops.

In 1897, the Order of the Oblates of St.. Francis acquired the services at the Church of St. Anna and 1906 were the Oblates ownership. Since 1908, the Blessed Sacrament exposed daily and given daily for confessions in the Church of St. Anna.

The restoration of 1969/70 eliminated the Geylingsche overpainting. Restorer was the painter Gustav Kramer, the gilding worried Campitell Fr.

From 2003 to 2005, the Anna church was renovated under the auspices of the Federal Monuments Office Vienna.

Convince the name of the operating here artists from the quality of this church: Daniel Gran (1694-1757) created the three ceiling frescoes, the high altarpiece and the frescoes in the Francis Xavier chapel, set up there Anna selbdritt is Veit Stoss attributed to the side altar paintings submitted by Viennese Schmidt, Christoph exchange is responsible for the interior design.

Others

Since the year 1930 is in the former crypt of the Church of the scout group 15 " St. Anna " the Scouts and Guides of Austria housed.