Saint Olai Church
The Sankt-Olai-Kirche ( Swedish Sankt Olai kyrka ) is a church in the center of Norrköping , which belongs to the Diocese of Linköping .
history
Like several earlier churches in the vicinity, the church is named after Olav II. Haraldsson , who is the patron saint of Norrköping. The first church was probably built in the 14th century and belonged to the Askeby Monastery . This was confirmed in 1390 by Bishop Nils Hermansson of Linköping, who wrote that the church had been an outpost of the monastery since ancient times. This fact is also confirmed by Pope Boniface IX in 1400 . and an official of the Vadstena Monastery found in documents. The reason for these documents were disputes between the monastery and the city of Norrköping over the church.
Later the building became the church of the merchants' guild and in the 16th century the town church. The current building was built between 1765 and 1767 according to plans by Carl Johan Cronstedt in the Baroque style. The Swedish Diet of 1800 was held in the church and the coronation of Gustav IV Adolf took place there on April 3, 1800.
The church was restored in 1870, between 1945 and 1949 and 1998.
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Coordinates: 58 ° 35 ′ 23 ″ N , 16 ° 11 ′ 18 ″ E