Agnestad church ruins
The church ruin of Agnestad is a church ruin (Swedish. Ödekyrka) in the rural parish of Falköping in the Swedish province of Västra Götalands län .
description
Only the foundation walls of this medieval church are preserved today. The remains of the foundation show the floor plan of a round church ( Swedish rundkyrka ). Its round central building had a diameter of about seven meters and a wall thickness of 1.1 meters. In the east it had a rectangular apse , which presumably housed the altar. It is surrounded by an old church square framed with field stones. It is located north of the Ålleberg mountain and southeast of Falköping. Due to its small size, it can be assumed that the parishioners present spent the services standing.
history
The church was built in the 2nd half of the 12th century. As with the Church of Skörstorp and the Church of Dimbo-Ottravad , the order for this was given by the Bishop of Skara , Bengt I. den gode . According to other sources, the foundation is said to go back to St. Siegfried von Växjö . Both were bishops of Skara . St. Siegfried is also responsible for the construction of the Östra Gerums Church, which is about 10 km to the east, and the Friggeråker Church , which is just 4 km to the north .
During archaeological excavations, remains of earlier Christian stone graves from the 11th century were discovered. The results of their investigation suggest that there must have been a wooden church at this point. The church was abandoned in the second half of the 16th century.
See also
Notes / individual evidence
- ↑ see aerial photo ( memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and this close-up ( memento of the original from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Peter Eriksson Lindskog: Försök till en korrt deskrifning om Skara pen . 5 single issues, 1812–1816
- ↑ Discussion of the controversy about the historical classification of St. Siegfried (Schw.)
- ↑ so z. B. after " Vidhemsprästen " Laurentius (priest in Laske-Vedum) in his extension of the " wæstrægötlanz lagh ". (It was written about 1219 to 1225 by Eskil Magnusson and is the oldest surviving and coherent writing in Sweden) Statements contained in it about the work of "St. Siegfried" are refuted in parts by the Chronicle of Adam of Bremen (Adamatus of Salerno) so that the historical statements about St. Siegfried are controversial.
- ↑ see digitized edition of the Äldre Västgötalagen by Lars-Olof Delsing (institutionen för nordiska språk) Lund
- ↑ cf. Bengt Wadbring: Bengans Historiasidor - Historien sett från västergötland.
- ↑ Information from the municipality of Falköping about the church ruins of Agnestad ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 58 ° 9 '1.71 " N , 13 ° 36' 5.73" E