Looking ahead: this will be important this week – small church with a long tradition – district of Munich


It is undoubtedly a gem, the little church with a wooden tower on Keferloher-Markt-Straße in the Putzbrunn district of Oedenstockach. On this Monday, the St. Anna Chapel will be the focus to celebrate its namesake. The patronage is celebrated in the open air on the name day of Saint Joachim and Saint Anna, the parents of the Mother of God Mary and thus the grandparents of Jesus.

As has been the case for more than 20 years, Prelate Józef Pick from near Gdańsk, Poland, will celebrate the Eucharist on Monday, July 26th (beginning at 7 p.m.) He lived in Putzbrunn when he was learning German and therefore comes to the community every year on his vacation trip to Austria, says Anna Bauer, who is taking care of the festival again this year. When Monsignor Pick arrives, Bauer has already cleaned the little church with the gable roof and her sister, a florist, has decorated it with flowers. Then the arrangements with all participants, such as the singing duo Eschbaumer-Sandner, are made by phone and everything is organized. Bauer, who headed the organizing committee in the Putzbrunn parish for ten years, has gradually grown into the task. When the former tavern “Beim Pöschl” no longer existed, they themselves invited to white sausage and Bockwurst so that “the St. Anna Festival doesn’t go down the drain”. There is no hospitality this year and the festivities take place on the festive open-air tariff on the meadow behind the church. There is a lot of space between the trees, as you need it in view of the Corona regulations.

The little church on the through road opposite the water tower (1906) is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments as a “simple single-nave building with a slightly retracted apse, from the 19th century, in the core probably older, and with a wooden tower from the 20th century”. The little church with the flat ceiling can be reached through the three-story tower, the two bells of which are still rung by a cable on special occasions. Four wooden benches on both sides of the central aisle offer space for around 20 visitors and extend right up to the altar bar, which takes up the entire width of the room. On it stand the crucified one, surrounded by putti, as well as two saints; on the right Sebastian pierced by arrows and on the left Leonhard with the crook. Two wooden figures of the Virgin Mary, each with a cross and small cross-way plaques on the two walls of the nave testify to the piety of the peasants who once built the church as a private chapel.

Little is known about the prehistory of today’s building with its semicircular apse. The small church is mentioned for the first time in a letter dated May 28, 1821 “from the venerable Vicariate General of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising” to Pastor Michael Berghamer, Ottendichl. In it “it is approved that the cross-way plaques given to the chapel in Edenstockach (…) may be designated and displayed in the named chapel with appropriate devotion”. These Stations of the Cross were replaced by new ones in the middle of the 19th century.

The church and the St. Anna Festival are noticeably close to Bauer’s heart. The long-established resident is sad that the ravages of time are gnawing at the church. The church was last renovated in 2002 by the municipality of Putzbrunn. But the walls are damp again and the plaster is crumbling. The farmers would have simply painted new plaster on the walls earlier if necessary, says Bauer. Fundamental repair of the damage would now be desirable. But Bauer doesn’t think about that now, she is looking forward to the patronage and hopes that it will be spared from a thunderstorm.

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