Abildgård Kirke
Coordinates: 57 ° 26 '50.7 " N , 10 ° 31' 29.8" O The Abildgård Kirke ( Abildgård Church ), together with the Fladstrand Kirke community Church the Danish Abildgård community. This belongs to the Danish national church in the Frederikshavn Provsti of the diocese of Aalborg .
The church building is characteristic of modern Danish church architecture: The church was designed as a community center, i.e. with adjoining community rooms , by the royal Danish building inspector Leopold Teschl and built between 1969 and 1970.
local community
history
Originally the Fladstrand Kirke was Frederikshavn's only church . With the great growth of Frederikshavn, a larger church was eventually necessary, so in 1892 the Frederikshavn Kirke was inaugurated. The Fladstrand Kirke with its adjoining cemetery was only used as a chapel for burials.
At the beginning of the 20th century the Bangsbostrand Kirke was built in the south of Frederikshavn to relieve the Frederikshavn Kirke .
After the Second World War, Frederikshavn continued to grow rapidly, so that in 1964 the parish Frederikshavn was divided into Abildgård Sogn , Bangsbostrand Sogn and Frederikshavn Sogn . The Abildgård parish initially received Fladstrand Kirke as a parish church, but it was too small, so that the foundation stone of Abildgård Kirke was finally laid on Thursday, August 7, 1969 by the then Aalborg Bishop Erik Jensen.
At the end of the 1970s, the parish had more than 12,000 members, so that the eastern part of the parish was incorporated into Frederikshavn Sogn .
Church work
Abildgård parish is characterized by lively parish work, which can be guessed from the large parish rooms that were expanded for this purpose in 2006.
In the field of child and youth work, the community cooperates with the FDF and the KFUM as well as KFUK , which mainly offer scout work .
The Abildgård parish has a total of three parish offices, and the parish is looked after by two full-time church musicians, three sextons, a parish assistant and three church servants ( not synonymous with sexton in Denmark ), including a head of administration.
building
Abildgård Kirke stands on a plot of approximately 7,000 m² on Hjørringvej in Frederikshavn . There is a parking lot in the northern part of the property, followed by the church building built in red bricks, initially with the 13 m high tower with four bells, in the west and the church hall itself. As usual, the church hall is oriented with the apse to the east, whereby the apse itself is a semicircular extension, with which the church ties in with the basilica tradition. This is followed to the south by the community halls, which were built around an inner courtyard. Since the expansion in 2007, the inner courtyard has been converted into a central hall with a glass roof. There are three large windows in the nave facing this inner courtyard, otherwise daylight only penetrates through the small windows on the north side and the narrow mosaic windows on the east side.
The walls of the church hall are also made of red bricks from the inside. The floor is tiled with red granite. There is a step towards the apse , on this elevation there is the baptismal font and the pulpit , both are also bricked. The altar was formerly in the semicircular apse on the east side of the nave, but was moved further towards the community. The altar consists of two brick pillars with a solid gray granite slab. There is no altarpiece, but a simple wooden cross in the apse. The benches and chairs in the church hall are made of light oak.
The organ was built in 1970 by the company Bruno Christensen og sønner from Tinglev and has 2,200 pipes, distributed over 30 registers , which are played by 3 manuals and a pedal . In addition to the main work and the pedal , the organ has two swellable works, the breastwork and the swellwork .
Web links
literature
- Harthøj, Benny (1988): Abildgård Kirke. Frederikshavn: Bangsbomuseet.
- Munk Petersen, Hans (1987): Kirker i Frederikshavn Kommune. Årbog 1986. Frederikshavn: Bangsbomuseet.