Nylars Church

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Nylars Church

The Church of Nylars ( Danish Nylars Kirke ) is one of four round churches on the Danish island of Bornholm in the village of Nylars . It was named after Saint Nicholas around 1335. (The old Danish name for Nikolaus was Nilaus, from which the name Nylars originated.)

History and architecture

The church was built around 1165. It is considered to be the best preserved of the four Bornholm round churches and is the only one that has no retaining walls. It is enclosed by a fortress-like reinforced outer wall which, together with the central pillar, absorbs the ceiling and roof loads.

The round church has three floors. The lowest floor forms the church interior (the round nave) with an inner diameter of 11 m. The two upper floors can only be reached through narrow, easily defended stairways. The second floor served as a shelter for the population and in peacetime as a storage room for the farmers. The third level was designed for defense against pirates who came to the island via the Baltic Sea. A reconstruction by Charles Christensen from 1939 shows the Nylars Church as a fortified church , the upper (third) level has a parapet walk around it , and two more platforms rose above it.

The round church received the characteristic conical roof in the 16th century.

In the vestibule from 1879 there are two rune stones . Behind the pulpit there is a window with a stained glass showing an hourglass and the Latin inscription "ultima latet", which means: "the last (hour) is hidden".

inner space

In 1882 the interior of the church was renovated under the direction of Mathias Bidstrup, the altar and pulpit were renewed. The church has the only surviving Romanesque window of a Bornholm round church; measuring 52 × 27 cm, it is so small that no adult could climb through it.

  • South portal

  • Round ship to the west

  • Choir and apse

  • Pulpit,
    in the background the consecration cross

Frescoes

The central pillar is painted with frescoes that are dated to around 1250. They show scenes from the creation of Adam and Eve to the expulsion from paradise.

  • The creation of Adam

  • The creation of Eve

  • The admonition

  • God blames Adam and Eve

  • The expulsion from paradise

See also

Web links

Commons : Nylars Kirke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Round church of Nylars
  2. ↑ History of the Church (Danish)
  3. ↑ Bornholms old churches , hrgg. v. Bornholms Museum 1999, ISBN 87 88 179 41 9 .
  4. ↑ Jes Wien Berg, Østersøens flertydige kirker, Fig. 2. reconstruction of Nylars Church as Wehrkirche, drawing by Charles Christensen, National Museum, Copenhagen, in 1940 (S. 13). (PDF; 17.25 MB)
  5. ↑ a b Nylars Kirke, pp. 244–274, Nationalmuseet, København (PDF; 2.6 MB)
  6. ↑ God exhorts Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of knowledge.

Coordinates: 55 ° 4 ′ 26 "  N , 14 ° 48 ′ 53"  E