The pc. - Anna church in Augsburg is a historical by monastery monks in the year 1321 was built.

The building

Since Augsburger population was mainly catholic coined/shaped, there were churches of other faith direction something up to the 14.Jahrhundert hardly apart from cathedral and established St.Ulrich the two bedeutensten Kirchbauten of the large city 1321 in the today's pedestrian precinct Anna route a church with monastery. In the 15.Jahrhundert one let the church extend. A chapel with Wandmalerein was additionally cultivated. Thereupon the pc. Anna church became Evangelist. One of the first Evangelist churches in Augsburg. In the year 1607 well-known Augsburger architect-general Elias Holl builds the church tower. In the 18.Jahrhundert those was transformed church again and contains to today rare paintings worth seeing among other things from Breu undHeinrich Eichler. The Fuggerfamilie left itself into a grave chapel, in the style of the Renaisannce, to that first German building in this style direction, in which Anna establish church. Greatest historical importance got the church by Martin Luther too.

Pc. Anna today

The pc. Anna church lay decades long in the Sleeping Beauty slumber. Only as the city Augsburg Anfangdes 21.Jahrhunderts by the upswing of the tourism, some forgotten objects of interest, under it the pc. Anna church, revived developed gladly visited by the connection with Martin Luther, probably is this church after the cathedral and the St.Ulrich the usually most visited church in Augsburg. But perhaps because it does not work so largely, not so powerfully, like the more well-known Kirchbauten, it is meanwhile not only with the Augsburgern but also with the tourists much likes. Finally a quantity of history is in it. Although the pc. Anna church in the animated pedestrian precinct Anna route lies in the middle is easy it to survey. From the outside with plants, beside their purchase shops of well-known marks bewachsen. In the course interest of tourism in the large city Augsburg, has the city government the inner court, between which Fuggerstrasse and pedestrian precinct, which so-called Anna yard in its original condition shifts, modernsiert at the same time however. Thus meanwhile a multi-storey car park is under the place. At the place, which reminds much of an Italian Piazza, is a The Anna yard of the Augustasaal and the former mittelalterichen public library is framed.

Martin Luther in Augsburg

Bedeutenste history experienced the pc. Anna church during the stay of Reformator Martin Luther. By the 7.Oktober 1518 by 20-October 1518 Martin Luther, Evangelist Reformator had, to hold to Augsburg into the with the Roman cardinal Cajetan a clarifying conversation over there. Augsburg was considered at that time as center of the catholics, the high cathedral as center of the catholic faith in Germany. During where differently already the Religionskrieg prevailed, the catholics in Augsburg had all Pope catholic under Kontrolle.Der left thus Martin Luther, to Augsburg beordern over there before cardinal Cajetan the 95 theses to cancellations. Martin Luther stayed overnight and lived during the negotiation time in the monastery that pc. Anna church. When it refuses the Wiederuf of the theses, Luther flees over night from fear by Roman soldiers to be arrested over Augsburger barrier plants.

Objects of interest

• Karmelitenkloster
• Augustanasaal
• Old municipal library

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