St. Anne’s Lutheran

COMPLETED IN 1511, ST. ANNE’S CHURCH IN ANNABERG-BUCHHOLZ was converted to Lutheranism just thirty years later. 213 feet long and 130 feet wide, St. Anne’s is one of the largest and most richly articulated late Gothic churches in Germany. The late Gothic style, or Sondergotik, manifested itself in the Saxon hall church type, which St. Anne’s exemplifies. This architectural documentation was part of a larger independent project funded by the Nanovic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, which studied these Saxon hall churches to identify Reformation-era developments in German sacred architecture.

All measurement work was done onsite and transferred into measured drawings in the notebook. Upon return to the United States, I drafted and watercolored a longitudinal section reaching 5 feet by 3 feet, as well as a series of other drawings to illustrate my research.