Church of Sproge

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Church of Sproge
Bildstein G 373 in the church of Sproge
Grave slab with runic inscription - now in Gotland's fornsal

The Church of Sproge is a gothic - Romanesque country church on the Swedish island of Gotland . It belongs to the parish (Swedish församling ) Sproge in the Diocese of Visby .

location

The church is located in the southwestern interior of Gotland on road 140 from Klintehamn to Burgsvik , which follows the old beach wall of the Littorina Sea . It is located 43 km south of Visby , 15 km south of Klintehamn, 9.5 km west of Hemse and 25 km north of Burgsvik. A few hundred meters east of the church began the former Mästermyr moor, which is now drained .

Church building

On today's south portal of the church you can read the year 1058, which probably refers to a wooden church that was previously in the same place. Four oak planks of this wooden church have been found, which are now kept in Visby in the Gotlands Fornsal Museum. Today's medieval stone church consists of a rectangular nave , which dates from the first half of the 13th century, with a narrower apse and a steeple . The building material is mainly gray limestone . The nave and choir date from the first half of the 13th century, while the tower followed in the late 13th century or around 1300. The church has white plastered facades. The nave and the choir are lower by saddle roofs covered the apse has a cone-shaped roof. The tower has ogive, pillared sound openings in three levels, gables in all four directions and an octagonal spire. The large arched windows are from a renovation between 1839 and 1840. The northern window was not added until 1844. The Romanesque south portal was also moved and the choir portal walled up. The tower has a pointed arched perspective portal on the north side. The four cross vaults of the nave had to give way to today's barrel vault made of wood during the renovation from 1839 to 1840. The choir is covered from the inside by a cross vault, the apse has a helmet vault and the tower room has a high tent vault. The triumphal arch and the tower arch are round arches. In 1965 the church was restored according to plans by the architect Olle Karth .

Furnishing

  • The triumphal cross is made of oak and dates from the 14th century.
  • The font is made of sandstone and dates from the 17th century.
  • Johan Bartsch dy (the younger) painted the altar in 1669.
  • The pulpit is from the 19th century.
  • The organ was built in 1901 by Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri from Stockholm .
  • A stone with a runic inscription was used as a piscina for a long time .

Surroundings

  • The parish magazine (Swedish sockenmagasinet ) in the northwest corner of the churchyard was built from limestone in the 1820s.

literature

  • Våra kyrkor. Klarkullens förlag, Västervik 1990, ISBN 91-971561-0-8 , p. 688 (Swedish).
  • Erland Lagerlöf, Gunnar Svahnström: The churches of Gotland. Stein, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89392-049-8 , pp. 233-2235.

Web links

Commons : Church of Sproge  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Svahnström: Ur Sproge kyrkas historia

Coordinates: 57 ° 15 ′ 13 "  N , 18 ° 12 ′ 39.3"  E