Next to the Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel stands the Chapel of St. Anny. Its Gothic foundations point to the origin of the building in the 14th-15th centuries. century, but so far no older - Romanesque origin is excluded. The chapel is documented only in 1559, when the visitor of the Głogów parish describes it as "sacellum pulchrum in cemeterio" - "a nice chapel in the cemetery" (which stretches around the parish church). During this period it served as a city carner.
Next to the Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel stands the Chapel of St. Anny. Its Gothic foundations point to the origin of the building in the 14th-15th centuries. century, but so far no older - Romanesque origin is excluded. The chapel is documented only in 1559, when the visitor of the Głogów parish describes it as "sacellum pulchrum in cemeterio" - "a nice chapel in the cemetery" (which stretches around the parish church). During this period it served as a city carner.
Its current appearance dates back to 1748, when Count Juraj Erdődi, a landowner in Głogów, and his wife Terézia Esterházi had the ancient karner rebuilt into a Baroque chapel. Count Erdődi was a great admirer of St. He tried to expand Anna and his respect for the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1776, (already after the death of Count Erdődi) the Congregation of St. Anny, the first lay church association in Hlohovec, while the chapel became its main spiritual stand for several decades.
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