Selånger church ruins
The church ruins of Selånger (Swedish. Selångers kyrkoruin ) are located west of Sundsvall in the Swedish province of Västernorrlands län and the historic province of Medelpad in northern Sweden .
The church dedicated to St. Olaf was built near Hednahovet in the 13th century. The originally rectangular nave with a narrow choir was later given a tower in the west that had the character of a fortress. The church building was equipped with brick arches , which were frescoed during the time of Archbishop Jakob Ulfssons 1469-1515.
A new church was built in the 1780s and the old one was left to decay. In 1841 the walls collapsed. In 1928–1929 the walls and the triumphal arch were partially reconstructed. A drawing from 1760 gives a good idea of what the church once looked like. It hangs in the sacristy of Selång's new church.
A number of rich burial mounds from the earlier Iron Age on the nearby Högom burial ground prove that Selånger was an important center and seat of a noble family, possibly even a small king of central Sweden. Five of the 18 known Viking Age rune stones from Medelpad also come from there . The name "Hov" for a location also indicates a center of pagan religious practice.
A fragmentary rune stone (Selångerstenen - M 10) stands next to the south wall. Its inscription reads: Une, Ka (rl? And A) ne built the stone after their father.
Web links
- Church ruins of Selånger - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Picture and map
- Description and picture
Coordinates: 62 ° 24 ′ 19.3 " N , 17 ° 12 ′ 30.8" E