The St. Anna Platz is a square in Munich. It is registered as a listed ensemble in the ''Bayerische Denkmalliste'' (Bavarian Historical buildings list).

Location

St.-Anna-Platz is located in the Munich district of Lehel north of Maximilianstraße. It extends from St.-Anna-Straße to the east. On the east side, a short stretch of road connects the square with Triftstraße.

History

The square was created at the end of the 19th century within the construction of the new parish church of

St. Anna According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come on ...

. Previously, the Franciscan monastery with the ''

Klosterkirche St. Anna im Lehel Klosterkirche St. Anna im Lehel is a Catholic abbey church in Munich, Germany. It was the first Rococo church of Old Bavaria and shaped the development of religious architecture in Bavaria. It is located in the center of Lehel opposite to the neo ...

'' (monastery church), which had received a neo-Romanesque two-tower façade in 1852/53, stood here only in the west. The church was built from 1887 to 1892 according to plans by

Gabriel von Seidl Gabriel von Seidl (9 December 1848 – 27 April 1913) was a German architect and a representative of the historicist style of architecture. Life and work Gabriel Seidl was born in Munich, Bavaria in 1848. He was the first son of the wealthy ba ...

in neo-Romanesque style. Approximately parallel to this, the edge of the square was built on three sides by various architects in the

neo-Renaissance style Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...

. In 1965/66 the façade of the monastery church was reconstructed in

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style, whereby the original overall impression of the square was lost.

Picture of the square

The St.-Anna-Platz has an approximately rectangular shape with a length of about 100 m and a width of about 75 m. It is slightly widened towards St.-Anna-Straße. In the middle of the square, the neo-Romanesque parish church stands elevated on a terrace surrounded by a low enclosure wall. Opposite it on the other side of St.-Anna's-Straße is the Franciscan monastery with the baroque façade of the monastery church. Part of the northern side of the square is occupied by the southern wing of St.-Anna's-Grammar School. The square has been rebuilt on three sides, only the west side on St.-Anna-Straße is exposed. The row of houses on the south side (No. 1, 1a, 2, 3, 4) is completely preserved, the houses are listed as historical buildings. Of the remaining houses, only no. 9 in the north-east corner and the St.-Anna-Gymnasium have been preserved and are listed as historical buildings. In the southwest of the square is the St.-Anna-Fountain, also built by

in 1894.

Miscellaneous

In the house at St.-Anna-Platz 2, the writer

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Ju ...

spent his childhood from 1889 to 1900. A commemorative plaque is attached to the house, which was created in 1966 by the sculptor Karl Oppenrieder.

References

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