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St. Anna Pilgrimage Church Ruins and Memorial Cemetery

St. Anna Pilgrimage Church Ruins and Memorial Cemetery

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St. Anna Pilgrimage Church Ruins and Memorial Cemetery

Name: St. Anna Pilgrimage Church Ruins and Memorial Cemetery
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Location: Karlovarský kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

April 27, 2025

In 1518, the town of Eger built a late Gothic chapel here in honor of Saint Anne. Anne was the mother of Mary and thus the grandmother of Jesus Christ. A square tower was added to the chapel in 1684, and a Baroque nave in 1691. This created a single-nave pilgrimage church. At the same time, the church served as the parish church for the surrounding villages of Ober- and Unterpilmersreuth, Oberkunreuth, Kreuzenstein, Boden, and the Eger districts of Hohlerhof and Nonnenhof. A residence for the Franciscan priests, a school, an inn, and a cemetery were built nearby. After the communist takeover in 1948, the buildings were gradually demolished and finally torn down in 1967. Only a few remains of the walls and the symbolically recreated cemetery with a large wooden cross and several gravestones remain as reminders of St. Anne's Church.

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Peter

May 15, 2022

Above Oberpilmersreuth (Horní Pelhrimov), on a side peak of the Grünberg, you can see the remains of the former baroque pilgrimage church of St. Anna. It had developed from an old Franciscan chapel from the 18th century and attracted pilgrims from all over the area. There was a cemetery around the church, which was also leveled. Some old tombstones have been dug up again and made into a small memorial. A war memorial for those who died or were missing in the First World War was also re-established. The church was demolished in 1967. Because of this pilgrimage church, the Grünberg was also called St. Anna Mountain or Annenberg. Source: Heimatforschung Marktleuthen, Erwin Purucker

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