Eidsborg stave church

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Eidsborg stave church

The Eidsborg Stave Church is one of the best preserved stave churches in Norway . With 82 seats it is a small parish church of the Provosty Vest-Telemark. It is believed that it was built on an earlier church. It is first mentioned in writing in 1354, but based on its stylistic features it is dated to the second half of the 13th century. The church is surrounded by a cemetery that houses both new and medieval graves .

location

Eidsborg is a small part of Tokke municipality in the province of Vestfold og Telemark . It is located about three kilometers north of the main settlement Tokke at an altitude of 530 meters. This place is known for the stave church, which is located in the open-air museum of the Vest-Telemark Museum.

dedication

The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. In the church there was a painted sculpture of St. Nicholas from the mid-12th century. According to legend, she was carried to a nearby pond every midsummer night and immersed there. Today this sculpture is in the collection of the Kulturhistorisk Museum in Oslo . A copy of her is on display in the stave church.

construction

The church is a single nave, rectangular long church. The roof structure is supported by four corner pillars and has no additional supports in the interior. The wall panels are clamped between the corner pillars and supported by additional posts. Around the church there is an arcade with dwarf arcades to the north, south and west . The main entrance is on the west. In 1928, the remains of a decorated archivolt were discovered above the entrance, between the columns . The outer skin of the building is a wooden shingle facade that clad the walls as well as the roof and the corner pillars.

The church was repeatedly changed through restorations. Nevertheless, the nave is considered to have been preserved in the original. In 1693 the ridge turret was rebuilt, and in the 19th century the church was extended to the east. In the 1920s and 1930s, the false ceiling was removed and small windows were inserted. During the restoration, a fireplace was discovered under the floor. This was possibly used for burnt offerings of pagan cults. The wood shingle facade dates from the 1970s and shows cracks. Breakage was found on the main structure. Rafter girders were kinked and pushed down by the load. An additional supporting structure was then installed above the rafters and the wooden shingles were replaced.

Interior

The inventory of the church comes mainly from the time of the Reformation. The original choir was demolished in 1826 and replaced by a new wooden choir in 1840. The crucifix above the choir opening was preserved from the Middle Ages. Two wall panels with medieval decor are believed to come from Lårdal stave church. The glue paint decor (distemper) dates from 1604 and 1640 and was completed by Domenico Erdmann in 1929. The altar panel from 1840 with paintings by MP Mandt shows a Jesus motif on which he is blessing bread and wine.

Views of Eidsborg Stave Church

  • West side of the stave church, 2005

  • West portal, 2008

  • Detail of a lion at the portal, west entrance, 2008

  • Dwarf arcades and detailed view of the wooden shingle facade

See also

literature

  • Roar Hauglid : Norwegian stave churches . Dreyer Verl., Oslo 1977, ISBN 82-09-00938-9 . (German translation; Norwegian original title: Norske stavkirker )
  • Erich Burger: Norwegian stave churches. History, construction, jewelry . First published, DuMont, Cologne 1978 (= DuMont-Kunst-Taschenbücher; 69), ISBN 3-7701-1080-3 .
  • Yasuo Sakuma, Ola Storsletten: The stave churches of Norway. Masterpieces of Nordic architecture . Approved license edition, Bechtermünz-Verl., Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-239-9 . (German translation)
  • Dan Lindholm, Walter Roggenkamp: Stave churches in Norway . 2nd Edition. Free Spiritual Life Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Eidsborg kirkesøk stave church - accessed on February 10, 2013 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Riksantikvaren, as of 2005.
  3. ↑ Riksantikvaren ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 6.9 MB), as of December 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.riksantikvaren.no

Web links

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Coordinates: 59 ° 27 ′ 51 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 16 ″  E