Old Church (Eidfjord)
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The Evangelical Lutheran Old Church ( Norwegian. Gamle kyrkje ) is a church building of the Norwegian Church in Eidfjord in the province of Vestland . The church is listed under the number 84069.
history
The white plastered stone church , originally consecrated to the Apostle James , was built in 1309. In the same year King Håkon V installed the priest Ivar. The church is also mentioned in the will of Thorgeir Peterson from Sponheim from 1310, in which he left 4 silver marks for the construction of the church. The legend that a woman by the name of Rike-Ragna had the church built as atonement for her sin goes back to a legend associated with the tombstone preserved in the church, but not proven by sources.
The hall-like interior of the Romanesque church is only illuminated by a few narrow windows. The strict rectangular architecture of the church finds its counterpart in other Nordic church buildings around 1300, such as the church of Hvalsey in Greenland or the Church of St. Olav in the Faroe Islands . The armory was added in the second half of the 16th century .
Most of the inventory dates from the Renaissance period . The ornate rood screen that separates the chancel from the nave and the aforementioned tombstone of Ragna Asolsdatter are older.
Since the construction of the New Church in Eidfjord in 1981, the Old Church is no longer needed as a parish church and is only used for special occasions.
literature
- Jess Angus McCullough: Death in a Dread Place: Belief, Practice, and Marginality in Norse Greenland, ca. 985-1450 . School of Archeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester 2016, p. 131.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eidfjord kyrkjestad on kulturminnesok.no
- ↑ PM Bremnes: Steinkirken i Eidfjord, når er den oppført?
- ↑ kirkesok.no
Coordinates: 60 ° 27 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 14.2 ″ E