Tingelstad Church

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Tingelstad Church ( Tingelstad kirke )

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tingelstad in Norwegian Tingelstad kirke , nynorsk Tingelstad kyrkje , is a long church from the 19th century in Tingelstad in the Gran Kommune in Fylke Innlandet . As St. Peter's Church , it is consecrated to the Apostle Peter and therefore bears the name St. Petri Kirke Tingelstad . The closure of the Old Church Tingelstad ( Tingelstad gamle kirke ), which was previously called St. Petri Kirche , came about due to a law of 1851, which states that a church must have space for at least 1/5 of the believers in a place and therefore it was decided to build a new larger church in Tingelstad. The Tingelstad gamle kirke only offered space for 100 people.

History and description

The church is made of red brick as a long church in the neo-Gothic style and has 750 seats. There is a cemetery in front of the church.

The church building was designed by the two German architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno , who live in Norway , and the master mason Herrman Frang was commissioned with the basic construction. On July 5, 1865, the foundation stone was laid by Mayor Amund Larsen Gulden and on December 5, 1866, the finished church was inaugurated by the parish priest (Sogneprest) Søren Brun Bugge. The construction costs of the church were around 9,000 speciedaler . The first service in the new parish church in Tingelstad was on December 9, 1866 (2nd Sunday in Advent) and the first funeral took place on the same day.

In 1929 electrical lighting was installed in the church building. In 1935 the community bought new stained glass windows, which were decorated with stained glass by Borger Haugli and which were installed behind the altarpiece. On December 20, 1953, a new organ by Joseph Hilmar Jørgensen was installed in the gallery, while the old organ from the Grinak stave church was moved downstairs. The steeple, covered with slate , was redesigned with copper sheet in 1958 and the church was first extensively restored. The building is now a listed building.

Takeovers from the old Grinaker stave church

The Grinaker stave church ( Grinaker stavkirke ) in Tingelstad was an old stave church from the 11th century and also had only 100 seats and therefore too small for the place according to the official regulations, but it was demolished in contrast to the Tingelstad gamle kirke . After it was finally clear that the old Grinaker stave church should be demolished, it was decided at the same time to use usable inventory and material for the new church in Tingelstad. The two wooden statues "Prosperity" ( Velhaben ) and "Justice" ( Rettferdigheten ) were recovered from the old Grinak church and placed in the new church at the corners of the altar. A church bell, the organ, two chandeliers, two brass wall lamps, the old baptismal font with baptismal font and the silver baptismal bowl cover, altar chalice and paten , an old image of Christ, a box from the sacristy with old liturgical vestments and chasubles , one Took armchairs and other old furniture.

Church bell

Two bells are hung in the bell of the church tower. The new larger bell was cast directly for the new church in 1866. The second smaller bell was one of the two bells that were taken over from the old Grimaker stave church. This bell was cast in 1721 and was also the smaller one when the Grinaker stave church bells .

The following inscriptions can be found on the two bells:

“You Menneskebarn Jeg Ringer Ind / En Gudelig Tanke I Dit Sin / Baade i Sorg og I Glæde.
Jeg Ringer For Brude, Jeg Ringer for Lig. Jeg Ringer Guds Sjele Til Himmerig. Jeg Ringer til Alle Ver Rede.

Cost at Tingelstad Sogns Menighet 1866 Da Halvor Olsen Folkestad Var Biskop I Hamar Stift, Søren Brun Bugge Prost Og Sogneprest I Gran Og Christian August Lütken Residerende Cappelan. Støpt av A. Holte Paa Toten "

- Inscription on the new bell of the Tingelstad Church

"Grinagers Kiercke Tilhørende Da de Grave Amstelodami Anno Domini 1721

Me fecit Jan Albert de Grave Amstelodami Anno Domini 1721"

- Inscription on the bell of the old Grinaker stave church bell

literature

  • Bugge: Kirkene i ny og gammel tid - Tingelstad nye kirke ( no ), Hadeland: bygdenes historie (Hadeland bygdebok). Edition, Volume 1 1932, pp. 273-275.
  • Harald Hvattum: Tingelstad kirke 1866–1991 ( no ). Tingelstad menighetsråd, 1991, ISBN 82-992505-0-1 .
  • Alf Henry Rasmussen: Våre kirker. Norsk kirkeleksikon ( no ). Vanebo forlag, Kirkenær 1993, ISBN 82-7527-022-7 , p. 584.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gamle Tingelstad kirke. (pdf) In: Hadeland Folkemuseum og Tingelstad gamle kirke. Håndboka er tilgjengelig på internet via Randsfjordmuseenes hjemmeside. Randsfjordmuseene, 2007, archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 18, 2014 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Grinaker stavkirke. In: norske-kirkebygg.origo.no. October 12, 2009, accessed March 24, 2014 (Norwegian).

Coordinates: 60 ° 23 '43.1 "  N , 10 ° 29' 8.9"  E