Veszprém – Chapel of St. Anna

This chapel was established in honor of St. Anna, the patron of the diocese and the Piarist order, by the Veszprém county judge János Salomváry in 1724. The designer and building contractor are unknown. It had no medieval antecedents. It was maintained by the Piarist order and it has always belonged to the Veszprém seminary. After the death of its founder, the new husband of his widow, Miklós Nemeskéri Kis became its patron and he established a foundation to support the chapel in his will. Later, as a filial church of the parish of St. Michael, its maintenance was the responsibility of the chapter and the bishops. A number of renovations were performed in the 19th century. The bishop Nándor Rott urged its renovation starting in 1923, and it was rehabilitated in 1925-1926 from donations by him as well as by the Veszprém chapter, the canon parish priest Antal Strausz, the canon Iván Ádám, the VKM, and the faithful congregation. The designer was the municipal technical councilor Jenő Bokrosy. During this time, the antechamber, the staircase and the galleries in the nave and in the extension were built. The sculptural group was relocated from the old façade to the new one. The original carved Baroque altar was removed and the new main altar, which was assembled from two side altars from the cathedral, was a donation from the bishop. The marble altar structure was from the altar of St. George (1782), and the altarpiece of St. Anna (by Franz Xaver Bucher, 1834) was probably painted over at this time. Read less