Franziskanerinnenkloster St. Anna

The Franciscan Tertiaries established their first convent at Neustätter Tor in 1502, with its church consecrated in 1508. Due to the Reformation, the sisters refused to abandon their Catholic faith in 1537 and fled to Schwabelsberg Castle. Nine years later, in 1546, they sold the convent on Freudenberg to the Imperial City Council. Remains of this first location were discovered during construction work in 2011. In 1548, the sisters temporarily moved into the Franciscan monastery of St. Bernhardin in Lenzfried. After their return to Lenzfried in 1642, Franciscans and Franciscan sisters cohabited the monastery for several years until the Tertiaries moved into the completed St. Anna Convent on the opposite side of the street in 1649, establishing a study institution for the education of Franciscan sisters. Following the dissolution of the communities in 1805 and its use as a military hospital from 1813 to 1815, the convent was sold to the municipality of Sankt Mang in 1821. In 1857, the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady revived the women's convent, establishing an orphanage and a school for the education of neglected girls. Between 1882 and 1932, the convent housed the Institut Lenzfried advanced training school. Later, it served as a resettlement camp, a Hitler Youth home for children from Bremen at risk from air raids, and a French camp, before a temporary hospital of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul was established there in 1943.

The St. Anna Convent is situated in Kempten im Allgäu, a city in the Bavarian administrative region of Swabia, Germany.

Today, the convent complex appears as a two-story, three-wing building with dormer windows, its core dating from 1647/49. The south wing was extended in 1899. A Baroque convent wall with blind arches encloses the northern area. The convent chapel of St. Anna, consecrated in 1648, is a small hall building with a recessed apse and a roof turret, redesigned in 1733. After a period as a hay barn, it was restored to its original purpose in 1857. The roof turret was renewed in 1894, and a comprehensive restoration took place in 1927/28, during which ceiling paintings in the Neoclassical style were renewed and new ones created. The high altar depicts the child Mary with her parents Anna and Joachim. The chapel is now accessible to the public.

• Lenzfried Monastery (Sacred building, approx. 136 m away)
• Lenzfried Castle (Castle, approx. 204 m away)
• Roman Bath CAMBODVNVM (Camboduno) (Ancient buildings, approx. 852 m away)
• Roman Fort CAMBODVNVM (Camboduno) (Ancient buildings, approx. 902 m away)