Tøstrup Church
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The Romanesque church of Tøstrup is said to have been built from granite blocks as early as the 10th century . It is located east of Nimtofte . For a long time it lay near the Kolindsund , a now silted fjord on the Djursland peninsula , which forms the eastern part of Jutland in Denmark .
The country church later received a Gothic nave choir with a tower and church porch in the west. In 1979, during the restoration of the roof structure, unique frescoes were uncovered, which are among the few in Denmark that date from the period after the Reformation (1582). In each of the 19 vaulted caps there is either a portrait of a prophet from the Old or an apostle from the New Testament. Vault ribs and columns are decorated with ornaments and garlands of leaves. The inscriptions are in Latin, although the translation of the Bible into Danish had been in existence since 1550. The baptismal font of granite with node patterns and side panels that are decorated with animal reliefs, is certainly an early work of stonemasons Horder .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 24 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 3 ″ E