Linde Church (Gotland)

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Linden Church
Tower of the Church of Linde

The Church of Linde ( Swedish Linde kyrka ) is a Romanesque country church on the Swedish island of Gotland . It belongs to the parish (Swedish församling ) Linde in the Diocese of Visby . The name Linde is first mentioned as Lindum in a copy from the 14th century and contains a plural form of the tree genus Linde .

location

The church is located in the southern interior of Gotland on road 142 from Visby to Hemse . It is located 40 km south of Visby, 16 km southeast of Klintehamn and 5 km north of Hemse.

Church building

The church is built almost uniformly in the Romanesque style and consists of an almost square nave and a narrower choir with an apse in the east and a tower in the west. Gray limestone was used as the building material. The choir was built towards the end of the 12th century. The present nave was built in the first half of the 13th century and the tower in the middle of the 13th century. The walls of the church are plastered white, but the edges are made of exposed, finely hewn limestone. The nave and choir is a gable roof covered, while the apse dome has. The tower has columnar, arched sound openings and is crowned by an octagonal top. The tower and apse are covered with wood, the choir and nave with adobe bricks.

inner space

The original arched windows of the church are no longer preserved and date from the 19th century. Originally there were four arched portals, but the choir portal was probably rebuilt in the Middle Ages. The two-aisled nave is supported by four cross vaults supported by a strong, undecorated central column. The wide, slightly pointed triumphal arch is the result of a subsequent expansion during modernization in the 14th century. At that time, the apse was probably also given its current pointed arched windows and the arched tower was extended in a similar way. The nave and the tower room have frescoes from the 14th century, the 15th century and the second part of the 17th century. They were brought out again during a restoration in 1906. Another restoration took place from 1973 to 1975.

Furnishing

The magnificent altarpiece immediately catches the eye. It was purchased in 1521 just before the Reformation came to Sweden. The triumphal cross that hangs in the triumphal arch is a copy. The original from the end of the 12th century is in the History Museum in Stockholm . The church has two baptismal fonts , at least the lower part of which is from the Middle Ages. Both are decorated and date from the 12th century, possibly made by Hegvald .

The pulpit was built in the second half of the 17th century. The organ was supplied by Åkerman & Lund from Stockholm in 1901 and restored at the beginning of the 21st century.

Surroundings

About 100 m southwest of the church on the Asträsk Lake are the ruins of a medieval rectory. In the south-west corner of the church garden there is a storage building from 1835 and immediately next to it is a medieval portal in the churchyard wall. To the north of the church is the Lindeberg, one of Gotland's larger elevations, where the remains of several prehistoric castle complexes (in Swedish fornborg ) are located. There is a wheel grave 1.5 km east of the church on the road to Stånga .

In the church there is the rune stone G 80.

literature

  • Erland Lagerlöf, Gunnar Svahnström: The churches of Gotland. Stein, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89392-049-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Svenskt local dictionary . Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, Uppsala 2003, p. 192, ISBN 91-7229-020-X .

Web links

Commons : Kirche von Linde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 57 ° 16 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 18 ° 22 ′ 47.1 ″  E