Church of Oath
The Church of Eid ( Norwegian Eid kyrkje ) is a listed church of the Evangelical Lutheran Norwegian Church in Nordfjordeid in the Norwegian municipality of Stad .
It is located north of the center of Nordfjordeid and is also part of the Eidsgata og Tverrgata monument area .
Architecture and history
A first known church for the region already existed in the 11th century in Hof My Klebust . The first written mention of St. Mary's Church is in a letter from Bishop Audfinn in Bjørgvin to the priest in Eid from 1322. Presumably this church was built as a stave church. However, it was already considered dilapidated in 1336. The church was also destroyed in a fire at the My Klebust farm.
However, a new church was built in the 14th century. It was called the church in Mel and should have been a little north of the current location.
Probably after the Reformation , a new building was then built at the current location. Presumably it was made of wood with the steeple and spire. Around 1680 the church was restored and, in addition to a new floor, a new ceiling. However, it burned down after a lightning strike in 1689.
As early as 1692, a new church building in the shape of a cross was built in the same place. The cross arms each had a length of seven meters and a width of 7.5 meters. There were galleries in all three arms . The church tower was crowned by a peak. In the church there was an altarpiece painted in 1692 by the merchant Alexander Dietrichsen Fester from Vågsøy . On it was a gold-plated cross on a blue background. In the background of the picture there were clouds, which shone at the edges of the picture by the light of a sunrise.
With the completion of the current building, the previous building was demolished. The decision to build a new building was made in spring 1846, and the inauguration took place on October 29, 1849 by Bishop Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow . The construction was carried out by Ole Løken according to plans by the businessman Claus Wiese . Architecturally, they leaned on the demolished previous building. Originally the church had 900 seats, today (as of 2019) it offers space for 750 people.
The white wooden church is designed as a single nave long church with two very short cross arms. On the long side of the nave there are four high rectangular windows on the north and south sides. Both the entrance area and the west-facing choir are narrower and lower than the nave.
The main entrance is on the west side. It is decorated with a round arch supported by columns. There are also portals on the north and south sides.
The tower is an octagonal ridge turret with blue decorations on the corners. The roof turret, which has four small, pointed windows, is crowned by a dome and point. The church roof is covered with red tiles.
In 1860 Bishop Jens Mathias Pram Kaurin visited the church and criticized the lack of a sacristy . Not until 1915 was a small sacristy built on the east side, the entrance of which is behind the altar.
The church is surrounded by three cemeteries.
Interior
In 1915/1916 restoration work was carried out by Lars T. Kinsarvik . The lavish decoration with rose paintings and dragon ornaments in the interior of the church goes back to him. After the rose paintings on the flat church ceiling had been restored in 1965, the paintings were again restored in 2014 by the master painter Kjell Arne Årset . There are also friezes on the walls with motifs from the Bible . In the course of the work in 1915/16, electricity was also applied and a heater installed.
Inside there is a gallery supported by four columns reaching up into the roof. Semicircular, ocher-colored wall columns are positioned between the high church windows .
The altarpiece painted by Fester for the previous building was also in today's church until 1892, but is now considered lost. The current altarpiece Christ Consollator ( German Christ the Comforter ) was created by Cecillie Dahl in 1892. It is a copy of the altarpiece in the Sofie Albertine Church in Landskron . The current frame of the picture was created in two phases. Ole Holmø created the inside of the frame in 1892 in Holmøane on Hornindalsvatnet . In 1915, Lars T. Kinsarvik and his son Arne Kinsarvik created the side pieces and the top.
Arne Kinsarvik also carved the pulpit in 1915, which was painted by his father. It shows wooden sculptures in six round arches, two of which can be identified as Christ and Paul. Paul carries a sword. The other four figures are believed to be evangelists . Arne Kinsarvik used his father as a model for a sculpture that may represent Matthew.
The baptism was made in 1885. Her paintings were also made in 1915 by Lars T. Kinsarvik. The brass baptismal bowl in the baptism , which dates from the end of the 16th century, is much older . In the middle it shows representations of Adam and Eve . In the church there is also a baptismal font made of brass. It was created in 1963, but is a copy of the baptismal font in Heddal stave church .
The Church of Eid has two bells. The older was in 1700 from Bergen bell-founder Simon Henrichsøn of bronze cast that had been salvaged from the burned-down predecessor church 1689th The bell inscription reads: Cast by Simon Henrichsøn in Bergen 1700 . The second bell was cast in Germany in 1903 . Their inscription comes from the Revelation of John 22:17 : Whoever wants to take the water of Kebens for free! .
The church did not have its first seven-part organ until 1898. Today's organ was built by JH Jørgensen in 1961 and has 21 parts. In 2014 the organ was renovated by Bower & Co. from Norwich , Great Britain . The instrument also received new organ manuals and now has 41 parts.
literature
- Eid kyrkje , parish in Eid, leaflet without year
Web links
- Entry in kulturminnesok.no (Norwegian)
- Parish website (Norwegian)
- Margrethe Henden, Aaraas Sigurd Vengen, Anders Gjerde, Eid kyrkje im Kulturhistorisk leksikon (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 54 ′ 40.8 " N , 5 ° 59 ′ 6.4" E