Grötlingbo Church
The Church of Grötlingbo ( Swedish Grötlingsbo kyrka ) is a country church that belongs to the parish (Swedish socks) in the parish (Swedish församling ) Havdhem in the Diocese of Visby . It is located 56 km south of Visby and 11 km south of Hemse on the Swedish island of Gotland .
history
According to a papal bull issued in 1296 , the church was consecrated to Luke the Evangelist . This church from around 1200 was a significantly smaller Romanesque sandstone church , of which remains of walls were found under the floor of today's church. Their finely hewn sandstone blocks were reused in the south facade of the successor church. Most show hunting and fighting motifs. It is possible that motifs from the heroic sagas were incorporated. The reliefs make it possible to identify the church as the work of the stone master Sighraf . He also carved the well-preserved baptism set up in the triumphal arch , the delicate reliefs of which depict the childhood of Jesus. The primitive reliefs on the west portal came from another hand. The current tower was added to the Romanesque stone church in the first half of the 13th century . The spire adorned with painted clocks was built at the end of the 18th century. The Latin inscription on the bell, which is one of the oldest in Gotland, says that it was cast in 1384 in honor of St. Luke.
Today's nave and choir were built in the middle of the 14th century under the direction of the master " Egypticus ". His characteristic smirking face masks appear most clearly on the capitals of the nave portals. The tympanum is adorned with reliefs depicting the Madonna and Child Jesus as well as some saints who can also be found in the paintings on the choir vault. The similar, but more ornamentally decorated choir portal shows a representation of the resurrection of Christ in Wimperg .
The church interior is a three-aisled hall with four strong round pillars and, in its closed form, is extremely effective. One of the characteristics of Gotland architecture is that the north wall has no windows.
Furnishing
In the choir there are vault wall paintings from the mid-14th century. A classic Deësis can be seen above the central window : Christ as judge of the world with Mary and John the Baptist. Dragons and tendrils in the eastern vault symbolize the battle between good and evil. The judge of the world is depicted again in the western vault, here assisted by Mary with the baby Jesus, John the Baptist and St. Olof.
The stained glass in the choir window comes from the same time as the lime paintings . The somewhat more advanced apostle figures in the side windows, which have a different style than the New Testament scenes in the middle window, could be more recent. There are hardly any medieval inventory items. Besides the baptism of the Master Sighraf and some with runes marked grave stones that are in the choir is that in the mid-13th century is managed for the older Church Triumph Cross received. Two badly damaged wooden sculptures depicting St. Olof and St. Luke are kept in the Gotlands Fornsal Museum in Visby.
The pulpit from 1548, the oldest preserved in Gotland, dates from the post- Reformation period . It was originally donated to the Marienkirche in Visby by the Danish liege lord Eiler Hardenberg and his wife. The canopy dates from the late 17th century. The altarpiece, a sandstone work from 1699 with paintings by Jacob Andersson Blass, is of a simple type.
The seating dates from 1710, the paintings on the bank doors were done in the 1740s. They have different decorations due to their assignments (women, men, crown commissioner, pastor's wife, etc.).
The church was restored in 1956/57 according to plans by the cathedral architect Eiler Greebe. An external restoration was carried out in 1986/87. In 1989 the tower room was partitioned off as a church service room by a glass wall, which is mainly used in the winter months.
Pulpit from 1548
The wise men from the Orient on Master Sighraf's baptismal font
Triumphal cross from the 14th century
literature
- Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X , p. 188.
Web links
- Guteinfo (Swedish)
- Orgelander (Swedish)
- Webgalleri Gotland (Swedish)
- Website of the Havdhem parish with information u. a. about the church of Grötlingbo
- www.segotland.se About the Church of Grötlingbo
- PaGotland ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
- Building register at Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 57 ° 8 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 18 ° 20 ′ 47.3 ″ E