Hellvi Church
The Church of Hellvi ( Swedish Hellvi kyrka ) is a inaugurated in the 13th century country church on the Swedish island of Gotland . It belongs to the parish (Swedish församling ) Forsa and to the pastorate Lärbro in the Diocese of Visby .
location
The church is located in northern Gotland, 39 km northeast of Visby , 9 km northeast of Slite and 6 km east of Lärbro .
Church building
The church was built from limestone and consists of a two-aisled nave , a narrower, just closed choir in the east, a church tower in the west and a sacristy on the north side of the choir. The Romanesque tower is the oldest, while the nave and choir were built around the middle of the 13th century. The sacristy dates from the 1850s. The church has white plastered facades and ogival windows. The nave and the lower choir are covered with gable roofs. As a result of a collapse, according to information in 1534, the tower got its characteristic mangled appearance. It is crowned by a striking octagonal spire. Of the two south portals, that of the choir is of particular interest because of its runic inscription according to which Lafrans Botvidarson from Eskelhem built the church. The interior of the nave is covered with six tent vaults. The two central columns have decorated capitals and bases, similar to the decor of the choir portal. A pointed triumphal arch leads into the choir, which is crowned by a tent vault and illuminated by a group of three windows in the east wall. The gallery , which was built in 1704 and decorated with images of the apostles, was moved from the west gable to the north side in the 1950s. The church was restored in 1926 according to plans by the architect Anders Roland.
Furnishing
- The pulpit is dated 1633.
- The present organ was built in 1956 by H. Lindegren from Gothenburg .
- The font and an epitaph are from the 17th century.
- The gallery painting and the baptismal font are donations by Sonderburger boatmen from 1704.
Sources and information
literature
- Sveriges kyrkor. Konsthistoriskt inventarium. Gotland. Volume 2: Rod setting. Red. Johnny Roosval. Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalts Förlag, Stockholm 1935 (Swedish).
- Våra kyrkor. Klarkullens förlag, Västervik 1990, ISBN 91-971561-0-8 , p. 676 (Swedish).
- Different from R. Johansson: Hellvitrakten. Platser och historik A – Ö. Haimdagars förlag, Lärbro 2000, ISBN 91-89309-07-3 (Swedish).
- Jürgen Beyer: Gaver from Sønderborg-skippere til kirkerne i Hellvi and rod. In: Per Stobaeus (Ed.): Kust och kyrka på Gotland. Historiska uppsatser. Landsarkivet i Visby och Gotlands kommunarkiv, Visby 2010, ISBN 978-91-971632-1-7 , pp. 365–386 ( Arkiv på Gotland 7, Danish).
Web links
- Commons : Church of Hellvi - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Building register at Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish, free material, from which the Swedish article was partially taken over)
- guteinfo (Swedish)
- PaGotland ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
- Orgelanders (Swedish)
- Website of the parish (Församling) (Swedish)
Coordinates: 57 ° 46 '30.3 " N , 18 ° 53' 42.2" E