Bjernede Church
The Bjernede Church , Danish Bjernede Kirke is a round church with Romanesque elements in Soro and the only round church on the Danish island of Zealand . It belongs to the Diocese of Roskilde, the Evangelical Lutheran People's Church in Denmark .
history
Around 1150, Ebbe Skjalmsen Hvide and his wife Ragnhild had a wooden church dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Lawrence built. He was a member of the Hvide family, close to King Valdemar I. , and a close relative of Archbishop Absalon von Lund . In 1177 her son Sune Ebbesen replaced the wooden church with the current one. In the porch an inscription commemorates the builders. In the west, the church has an angular choir with an apse. On the upper floor, Sune Ebbesen set up a round hall with six Romanesque double windows that can be reached via a narrow staircase. The round church thus served at the same time as a representative building for a high nobleman. Sune Ebbesen Hvide had already had a similar round church destroyed by fire in 1870 in Schlamersdorf in Wagrien . Petersborg Church was built on the same plan, also near Sorø, but it no longer exists.
The lower part of the two-story church consists of granite - field stones , the upper part of brick , which was still an unusual building material in Denmark at the time of construction. With a height of 7.5 m and a wall thickness of 1.5 m, the interior space is relatively small with a diameter of only 12 m. The roof vault is supported by four stone support columns inside. There is a hall above the church.
Around 1500 the church was dilapidated. Parts of the upper masonry had to be demolished. Instead of the original roof, a significantly lower gable roof was drawn in so that the church resembled a miter . During this renovation, the originally very dark church was lit by installing a larger west window. Between 1890 and 1892 HB Storck restored the church in the historicist style . He made a conical roof with a spire. The large, round room on the upper floor was given a wooden roof and is now 3.5 m high. This reconstruction was later criticized by Peder Klint as unhistorical and clumsy. The changes inside, which included replacing the old altarpiece with a new one, were reversed in 2003.
inventory
The furnishings include a baptismal font from the time the church was built, a late Gothic cupboard and the equally late Gothic pulpit.
The altar painting dates from 1615. It was purchased by the then pastor and head of the Sorø Akademi Johannes Stephanius (father of Stephan Hansen Stephanius ). The center piece shows the sacraments baptism, last supper and confession, crowned by the risen Christ with a victory flag. The altar was renovated in 2003.
Web links
- Bjernede kirke (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Bjernede Kirke (Danish)
- ↑ http://denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Arkitektur/Danske_kirker/Bjernede_Kirke
Coordinates: 55 ° 27 ′ 43 " N , 11 ° 37 ′ 30" E