Hald Kirke
The Evangelical Lutheran Hald Kirke is a Romanesque village church with late Gothic additions in Hald in the Midtjylland region in Denmark, about 11 km northeast of the town of Randers . The parish belongs to Hald Sogn in Randers Nordre Provsti of the Aarhus diocese of the Danish People's Church .
Choir and nave were built from granite blocks around 1150; In the late Gothic period, the tower, vestibule and sacristy were added, the choir arch was expanded and a ribbed vault was drawn into the choir and nave . Both Romanesque portals have been preserved; the north portal is walled up, the south portal is in the vestibule.
The Romanesque baptismal font with lion reliefs is typical of the area around Randers, the baptismal font shows the Annunciation . On the left wall of the choir is a late Gothic crucifixion group on a modern beam, in front of the right wall there is an iron-studded chest. The pulpit from the Renaissance period shows pictures of the evangelists from the 18th century.
The choir arch and vault are adorned with late Gothic frescoes from around 1500–1520. In the vault of the choir, the Last Judgment is depicted above the altar ; in the other caps there are apostles and saints. On the reveal of the choir arch, Maria is depicted in the upper half on the left and Johannes on the right , both probably as side figures to a triumphal cross that had previously hung in the choir arch. In the lower half of the reveal you can see St. Laurentius on the left , St. Dionysius as figures of painted side altars on the right .
Ship to the east
Choir
Baptismal font
Baptismal bowl
pulpit
altar
The jewel of the church is the originally five-winged, now three-winged winged altar from around 1500, which was acquired by the then owner of the church from Sankt Mortens Kirke in Randers when a new altar was donated in 1765.
The altar shrine shows an unusual depiction of the mercy seat in the middle : on the one hand the dove of the Holy Spirit is missing , on the other hand God the Father holds his left hand in front of the loincloth of Christ, and through a hole the loincloth opens a view of a sixth mark of Christ. The gesture and wound mark are interpreted as signs of the teaching of the time that the circumcision of Christ, which inflicted a wound on him, was part of the Atonement of Christ. In the left field Mary is shown with the baby Jesus, in the right field St. Martin . In the corners of the middle field are the symbols of the evangelists : top left the eagle of John , bottom left the ox of Luke , top right the winged man of Matthew and bottom right the lion of Mark . The three fields of the shrine are bordered by slender columns with small figures on their capitals ; from left to right they are: presumably St. Nicholas , Maria Magdalena , presumably St. Maternus and Elisabeth of Thuringia .
The twelve apostles and the four church fathers are depicted on the wings of the altar :
left wing, top row: John , James the Elder , Peter , Pope Gregory the Great
left wing, lower row: Matthew , Philip , James the Younger , Augustine
right wing, top row: Hieronymus , Paulus , Andreas , Thomas
right wing, bottom row: Ambrosius , Bartholomäus , Simon , Matthias
The upper end of the altar has been a finial frieze since 1924 , before that there was presumably the crucifixion group on the altar shrine, which is now attached to the left wall of the choir and which was purchased from Sankt Mortens Kirke together with the altar .
There are inscriptions on the predella , including three rhyming two-line lines that comment on the figures in the shrine from an evangelical perspective in contemporary Danish:
- Maria hearers before Bön, / vi kun tilbede hendes Sön.
- (Maria does not hear our pleading, / we only pray to her son.)
- Den usȳnlig Gud vi ære, / Billeder vi kand undvære.
- (We honor the invisible God / we can do without images.)
- St. Mortens Billede her maa staa, / Apostles Ord vi bȳgge paa.
- (St. Martin's picture may be here, we rely on the word of the apostles.)
The creator of the altar is unknown; according to the inscription Imperialissi [m] av [ir] go ma [r] ia (All Ruler Virgin Mary) under the statue of the Virgin Mary he was given the emergency name Imperialissima Master in the 20th century .
The altar was restored in 1765, 1924 and 2006–2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hald Kirke: → Århus Stift → Oversigt over altertavlerne → ÅR.12.01.01 (Danish), accessed on October 28, 2019
Coordinates: 56 ° 33 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 25 ″ E