Thorsager Church
The Church of Thorsager , Danish Thorsager Kirke , is a round church in Thorsager in the Syddjurs municipality on the Danish Jutland peninsula . The church belongs to the Syddjurs Provsti in the diocese Aarhus the Lutheran Danish People's Church .
history
The church is located on a hill that was in the middle of a wetland on Kolindsund at the time of construction , which cut through Djursland until it was dammed in the 19th century .
A church in Thorsager is mentioned for the first time in the Waldemar-Erdbuch from 1231. A first church in the same place not far from Randers was built around 1000, according to legend, at a pagan cult site. The place name Thorsager ( Thors Acker) refers to this . During the last renovation in 1950, foundations of an older wooden church were found under today's church, and under its clay floor a stone packing that was perhaps a pagan sacrificial altar.
The current church was built around 1200. It is the youngest of the Danish round churches. Together with the structurally very similar round churches of Bjernede and Horne it is referred to as "Absalon-round churches" after the reign of King I. Waldemar influential Archbishop Absalon . The builder was possibly Peder Vognsen , like Absalon a member of the noble family Hvide, close to the king, and 1191–1204 Bishop of Aarhus .
It is one of the oldest brick buildings in Denmark. The original bricks in the monastery format can only be seen in a few places. The central round tower has an inner diameter of 12.6 m. The roof of the round nave is supported by four pillars inside. The current vault is not original, but was pulled in during the renovation in 1877/78. A square choir with an apse is attached to the central building to the east. In the late Middle Ages, the armory was added to the south. Above the church there is a low room, accessible via a spiral staircase, which, unlike in Bjernede, may not originally have been a separate room, but a gallery where the nobles attended the service. The small tower with stepped gable in the west, which was probably added to the coat of arms house around 1400, was demolished in 1877 and is now only the same height as the choir.
Since 1313, the church belonged to the area by King Erik IV. Menved built castle Kalø . The church remained in royal ownership until 1661, after which it belonged to the changing landlords. In 1828 Kalø and the church were acquired by the Hamburg merchant and senator Martin Johann Jenisch , in whose family it remained until it was expropriated in 1945.
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In the church there is a Romanesque baptismal font, which may still come from the previous building. It is much simpler than the baptismal fonts in many churches in the area that were created by the stonemason Horder , who lives in the immediate vicinity . The altar was created during the renovation in 1952; the altarpiece acquired in 1878 now hangs on the side of the wall. There is a late Gothic crucifix on the altar table . The lighting was designed by Bent Exner in 1979 . The pulpit was replaced by a lectern in 2004. The organ dates from 1909.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 20 ′ 32.3 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 38.5 ″ E