Norrlanda Church

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Norrlanda Church
Norrlanda kyrka

The Church of Norrlanda ( Swedish Norrlanda kyrka ) is a Gothic country church on the Swedish island of Gotland . She belongs to the parish (Swedish församling ) Gothem in the diocese of Visby .

location

The church is located in the eastern interior of Gotland, 27 km southeast of Visby , 12 km north of Roma and 19 km north of Ljugarn. It is located on a gravel plateau east of the Kyrkmyren , a nowadays diked and cultivated moor area.

Church building

The brick medieval church consists of a rectangular nave , a church tower in the west and a narrower, just closed choir in the east with a sacristy in the north. The tower is from the beginning of the 13th century and originally belonged to a Romanesque core church from the second half of the 12th century. In the second half of the 13th century or around 1300, the Romanesque choir was replaced by the current choir with the attached sacristy. The nave was added in the middle of the 14th century. Thus, only the tower remains from the original Romanesque church. The remarkable south portal, which was built by the anonymous master stonemason Egypticus , is from this period . The tower was probably enlarged at the same time. The church has plastered facades and the edges of the building corners and the window frames are made of carved stone. The nave and the choir are lower by steep gabled roofs covered. The tower has small sound openings and an octagonal spire with a bell level under a canopy. In addition to the nave portal, there are entrances on the south side of the choir with a pointed arched perspective portal and on the north side of the tower with a round arch supported by two consecutive ribs. A high and wide pointed triumphal arch leads to the choir. This is covered by a tent vault and is illuminated by the large group of three windows. The tower room has a cross vault , a round window in the west and a narrow, ogival wall opening as a connection to the nave. The sacristy is covered by barrel vaults . The frescoes in the choir and nave were made by the Passion Master in the middle of the 15th century. The church was restored in 1889. Another restoration took place from 1953 to 1995 according to plans by the architect Olle Karth .

Furnishing

  • A church bell hangs in the tower , which was probably cast around 1250.
  • The pulpit was added in 1726 and rests on the southern of the two medieval side altars.
  • The sandstone font is from 1735 and rests on a base of an older font.
  • The present organ was built in 1955 by Wilhelm Hemmersam from Copenhagen and came into the church in 1985. Before that, the organ was in Elleholm Church, which is 125 km northeast of Malmö on the south coast of Sweden.
  • The Norrlanda organ , which was once built between 1370 and 1430, is now kept in the State Historical Museum in Stockholm.

Surroundings

  • Two medieval portals in the churchyard wall are still preserved. The northern portal has a special shape with an ogival vault, which is divided in the middle by an arcade wall into a smaller and a larger passage.
  • A medieval courtyard gate, which was demolished in 1899, was rebuilt to the south-east of the church in 1971.

Sources and information

literature

  • Våra kyrkor. Klarkullens förlag, Västervik 1990, ISBN 91-971561-0-8 , p. 679 (Swedish).

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Coordinates: 57 ° 30 '5.5 "  N , 18 ° 39" 34.9 "  E