Ardre Church

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The church of Ardre
The church of Ardre
The church of Ardre
Picture stone "Ardre VIII" from the church

The Church of Ardre ( Swedish Andre kyrka ) is a country church on the Swedish island of Gotland . It belongs to the parish ( Swedish socks ) (Ardre in the parish swedish församling ) Guards at the Diocese of Visby .

location

The church is located 38 km southeast of Visby , 20 km southeast of Roma , 5 km north of Ljugarn , 37 km south of Slite and 20 km northeast of Hemse near the east coast of Gotland.

Church building

The plastered limestone church is one of the smallest on Gotland. It has a Romanesque style tower from around 1200. The tower has a high point that offers space for a bell level and is provided with sound openings and a small canopy. The hood from 1902 replaced a similar predecessor.

The nave and choir were built together around 1250. The sacristy is more recent and was built in 1802. 1900–1902 the church was rebuilt.

The choir has a small Romanesque portal, the capital of which is richly decorated with sculptures, from around 1200. It was moved here from an older church to which the current tower was added.

The tower has a small and simple Romanesque portal to the west. Two Gothic portals belong to the nave, one with a high gable field in the south and a simpler one in the north. The choir, the nave and the tower chamber are each covered by a tent vault.

The interior is strongly influenced by the restoration from 1900 to 1902 based on plans by the architect Axel Herman Hägg . The wall and vault painting and the pew furnishings come from this, bringing together the neo-Gothic influence with the motifs borrowed from the pulpit from the first half of the 17th century .

The church has some medieval wooden sculptures: a triumphal cross from the middle of the 13th century, an image of the Madonna from around 1500 and an altarpiece from the beginning of the 14th century. In the group of three of the windows of the choir there are stained glass. Of these, three are from around 1300, the rest were made in 1902 by Carl Wilhelm Pettersson .

In its current design, the church is a single-nave hall church with a narrower choir with straight altar walls. The saddle roof of the church is covered with black shingles . The steeple is provided with a point. The interior walls are plastered and the interior is covered by a tent vault. The sacristy is covered with a trapezoidal roof.

Facility

The font dates from the first half of the 13th century.

The organ was made in 1990 by J Künkels orgelverkstad . The organ case was made by T. Jangvik and is a copy of the case by AH Häggs from 1902.

The pews date from 1902. During the restoration of the church, carried out from 1973 to 1975, eight picture stones were uncovered under the floor .

Others

To the west of the church are the former school (now the parish hall ) and the foundation walls of a medieval castle (defensive or watchtower).

photos

literature

  • Johnny Roosval , Erland Lagerlöf: Kyrkor på Gotland Kräklinge ting. Sydöstra delen. In: Sveriges kyrkor. Gotland. Volume 97, 4, 5. Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalts Förlag, Stockholm 1963, pp. 648–856.
  • Sigmund Oehrl: Wieland the blacksmith on the box stone from Alskog kyrka and the rune stone Ardre kyrka III - For the partial re-reading and interpretation of two Gotland picture stones. In: Wilhelm Heizmann et al. (Ed.), Analecta Septentrionalia. Contributions to the North Germanic cultural and literary history. Supplementary volume to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Vol. 65 (Berlin, New York 2009).

Web links

Commons : Ardre kyrka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 57 ° 22 ′ 46.2 "  N , 18 ° 41 ′ 48.8"  E