Parish Church Steyr-St. Anna

St. Anna is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Upper Austrian town of Steyr’s Annaberg district.It is dedicated to Saint Anna and is part of the Linz Diocese’s Steyr Deanery.

The building is a two-story pastor’s stöckl with an Anna chapel to the east, built around 1755.On the top level, the Pfarrerstöckl has a final hipped roof, six axes on the longitudinal facade, and two axes on the transverse façade.The lowest floor is smooth plastered, and the levels are separated by plaster frames.The upper level is drip plastered, and vertical ledges emphasize the contours of the structure.On the ground level, behind the left fifth story window, is a rectangular skylight gateway with honeycomb lattice.The top-story windows are plaster-framed.A house painting with pictures of saints in a baroque frame can be seen on the top floor’s longitudinal façade, on the right.A finely designed eaves cornice completes the façade.The Anna Chapel is a tall, slender building with two projecting axis and a recessed circular apse.The current appearance originates from a renovation in 1887. The foundation is grooved, and the main level features massive arched windows with flat triangular gables.There are square windows with plaster frames and a central wedge stone on the top level, as well as a circular arched window in the apse.To the north, a two-story bell tower with round-arched sound windows with triangular roofs on the first level and round clocks on the top floor rises.The tower is completed with a multi-broken tent roof and a tower cross.