St. Anna Kapelle, Scheer
Facts and practical information
The St. Anna Chapel, the so-called "Käppele" on the Mengener Straße near the entrance to the Rote Steig, owes its origin to the devotion to St. Anna, the mother of Mary, which was attested early in Scheer.
It is possible that the altar consecrated in the parish church in 1412 was the altar of St. Anne mentioned in 1513, on which the chaplaincy of St. Anne was founded in 1518. The St. Anna chapel seems to have been built after a relic of St. Anna was brought to Scheer in 1605.
The cube-shaped building with surrounding cornice, gable roof and wrought-iron Biedermeier cross, has an open round arch in the north. In the cross-vaulted interior there is a life-size wooden image of Our Lady with the Child on her left hand.
Since the chapel is also called "′s Forstmeisters Käppele", it can be assumed that it received special support from the lordly forester Sättele, who in 1725 allocated money for annual days to the church factory, especially since the unification of the St. Anna Benefice with the Frühmeß Chaplaincy took place in the same year. In 1998 the chapel was taken over by the Georgipflege.
The last gospel is read here during the processions.
The last chapel renovation took place in 1986.
Scheer
Baden-Württemberg