Chapel of St. Anna, Trun

History

On October 18, 1500, the chapel of St. Mary in Trun was consecrated in honour of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anna and Saints Andrew, Nicholas, Wolfgang and Helene. It is unlikely that the chapel was built in memory of the Upper Covenant invoked under the maple tree. The patron saint of the covenant was St. George. The patron saints St. Anna, Wolfgang and Helene rather point to a relationship with mining. The chapel of St. Anna was consecrated again in 1515. It was probably radically rebuilt in 1500 and the interior was renovated by 1515. The current chapel, a new building from 1704 with three altars, dates from 1778, wall paintings and sayings in the vestibule.

Description of the building

The north-facing, Baroque building consists of a three-bay nave and a recessed choir closed on three sides, vaulted by barrel vaults with spandrels, divided by girts in the nave and adapted to the polygon in the choir. The lighting enhances the free and light effect. It is provided by rectangular windows in the wall zone and oculi in the shields. The nave walls are divided by round-arched blinds. The gable bears the date 1704 and the south front is fronted by an open portico resting on four Tuscan columns with three groined cross vaults. Above the nave and choir is a uniform gabled roof, on which sits a ridge turret with a curved dome.

Stucco and wall paintings

Depictions, Immaculata, Family Tree of Christ, Birth of Mary and the Holy Family, 1704.

Furnishings

The high altar forms an aedicule with two columns, a curved pediment, 1704. The altarpiece depicts St. Anne and St. Joseph. The pulpit consists of a bulbous polygonal corpus, 1704. Pews with relief carvings, 18th century. A wooden crucifix on the chancel arch, around 1500-1515. A Baroque statuette of St. Anne, 17th century, above the entrance.

Bells: With inscriptions, 1426 and 1500.The maple tree, under which the Upper League was founded according to the tradition first reported by Campell in 1574, stood to the east of St. Anne's Chapel.

(Text recorded by: Regiun Surselva)