St. Anne's Church, Augsburg

St. Anne's Church (German: St. Anna-Kirche) in Augsburg, Germany, is a medieval church building that was originally part of a monastery built in 1321. It is notable for its elaborate interior decoration.

History

St. Anne's was built in 1321 by

Carmelite

friars. In 1518

Cardinal Cajetan, who wanted Luther to submit to the pope. The church converted to Lutheranism

in 1545.

On October 31, 1999, representatives of the Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran churches signed the

ecumenical movement

. After a long period of closure, the Lutherstiege museum was reopened in 2012. A comprehensive renovation was completed in 2016/17.

List of preachers from 1545

1545: M. Johann Heinrich Held
1551: Johann Mattsperger(Interim)
1551: Kaspar Huberinus
1552: M. Johann Meckhardt
1559: M. Georg Eckhard
1568: M. Martin Rieger
1579: Dr. Georg Müller(Mylius)
1584: Matthäus Herbst
1586: Stephan Engelbronner
1586: Johannes Baier
1589: Johann Rosslin
1592: M. Georg Riederer
1593: M. Kaspar Sauter

The building

The Goldsmiths' Chapel (Goldschmiedekapelle) was donated in 1420 by Conrad and Afra Hirn.

Together with his brother

Fugger chapel is the earliest example of Renaissance architecture in Germany. Among the features are a marble pavement, an organ with painted shutters, stained glass, choir stalls, a sculptural group of the Lamentation of Christ, and memorial relief tablets in the style of Dürer. The spire was added in 1607 by Elias Holl. The church ceiling is decorated with Baroque and Rococo stuccowork, with frescoes by Johann Georg Bergmüller

.

In 1518 the chapel was consecrated to the patron saint of Jesus Christ in the altar sacrament, the Holy Virgin Mary and the Evangelist Matthew and has remained a consecrated Catholic place of worship to this day. When St. Anne's Church became Protestant in 1548, the Fugger Chapel remained Catholic because the Fugger Foundation continued to look after it and contributed to the upkeep of the church. This is how the remarkable fact came about that part of the church is denominationally different from the rest, and that the burial place of the Fugger family, who are considered strictly Catholic, is now in a Protestant church.[1] Adding to the oddity is that Jacob Fugger's loans to Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg and the indulgence to repay them were what triggered Martin Luther's Reformation.

References

^ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Augsburg: 500 Jahre Fuggerkapelle (500 years Fugger Chapel, 2018).

Sources

St. Anna (Augsburg) on German Wikipedia
St. Anne's church
Geschichte der St. Anna-Kirche in Augsburg By Julius Hans
Stammbaum der Familie Lotter in Schwaben By Carl Lotter

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[1] Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Augsburg: 500 Jahre Fuggerkapelle (500 years Fugger Chapel, 2018).

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