Hemse Church

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Hemse Church
Hemse Church

The Church of Hemse is a predominantly Romanesque country church consecrated in the 13th century and belongs to the parish (Swedish Församling ) Alva, Hemse och Rone församling . It is located in Hemse in the interior of the Swedish island of Gotland , 45 km south of Visby .

Church building

Hemse Church, Gotland: interior with medieval wall paintings

The church was built on the same site as the previous Hemse stave church from the first half of the 12th century, which is now reconstructed in the State Historical Museum in Stockholm . During the restoration in 1896, wall planks of this wooden church were discovered in today's church floor.

Today's medieval church consists of a nave and a narrower apse choir in the east, which are made of sandstone, and a church tower made of limestone in the west. The nave and choir date from the beginning of the 13th century, while the tower was added later in the 13th century. The sacristy on the north side of the choir is from 1896. The facades of the church are plastered white with corner chains that are carved from limestone. The nave has a tiled gable roof , while the apse has a vaulted roof. The tower has round-arched, column-adorned sound openings and is crowned by an octagonal spire. Of the three portals of the church, the choir portal and the northern and southern tower portal, the southern tower portal is the most stately and forms the main entrance. This came with a modernization of the church around 1300, when the original south portal of the long house was probably moved to the north side of the tower, the church vault was built and the tower received its west window. the window openings are the result of enlargements in the mid-19th century. The interior of the single nave longhouse is covered by two tent vaults. A narrow, pointed triumphal arch leads to the choir. The tower arch is significantly larger. The tower room (bell chamber) and the choir are each covered with their own tent vault.

Murals

During the restoration from 1962 to 1963, the architect Olle Karth was able to emphasize the medieval paintings of the church in their more original form. The pictures are one of the many examples of medieval wall paintings on Gotland .

Furnishing

  • The triumphal cross dates from the end of the 12th century.
  • The font has a Gothic style bowl from the 14th century. Its foot is from the later part of the 12th century and is attributed to Hegvald's workshop.
  • A church bell from the beginning of the 15th century hangs in the tower .
  • The sandstone altar was donated in 1699.
  • The pulpit is from 1768.

organ

View through the church, organ

The organ was installed in 1963 by the Frobenius Orgelbyggeri company from Copenhagen . The earlier organ was built in 1916 by Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri from Stockholm . The slider chest instrument has 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Rörflöjt 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Dumped 4 ′
4th Waldflöjt 2 ′
5. Mixture IV
II Swell C – g 3
6th Dumped 8th'
7th Rörflöjt 4 ′
8th. Principal 2 ′
9. Kvinta 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
10. Krumhorn 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
11. Subbas 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Night horn 2 ′

See also

literature

  • Erland Lagerlöf, Gunnar Svahnström: The churches of Gotland. Stein, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89392-049-8 , pp. 172-175.
  • Våra kyrkor. Klarkullens förlag, Västervik 1990, ISBN 91-971561-0-8 , p. 692 (Swedish).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ (Swedish)

Web links

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

Coordinates: 57 ° 13 '58.6 "  N , 18 ° 22'22.7"  E