Hjärtlanda Church
The Church of Hjärtlanda (Swedish: Hjärtlanda kyrka ) is a Romanesque church building of the Swedish Church near Hjärtlanda in the Swedish municipality of Sävsjö .
It is one of the so-called Njudungskirchen built in the region in the 12th century and is the smallest of these. Presumably the church was built on an earlier pagan place of worship. This is indicated by the discovery of a sandstone fertility symbol in the church cemetery in 1927 in the form of a phallus , which is now kept in the Stockholm History Museum .
In the archives of the pastorate there is a so-called travel altar, a very old mobile altar from the time of missionary work. The triumphal arch of the church has paintings from the Middle Ages . The ceiling paintings date from the 18th century.
literature
- Carina G. Hördegard, Njudungskyrkorna i Sävsjö och Vetlanda kommuner , no year, Swedish / English / German, page 11
Coordinates: 57 ° 21 ′ 20.2 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 52" E