Garmo stave church
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The Garmo stave church is a stave church , originally in Garmo in the municipality of Lom in Innlandet ( Norway stand) and Maihaugen in Lillehammer was rebuilt.
The building
The current church was probably built around 1200 as a successor to an earlier church. It was originally a simple church with a rectangular nave , a narrow choir and probably an arcade. The church was later extended and in 1690 the bell tower was added. In 1730 it became a cruciform church with a transept extension in block construction.
Demolition and reconstruction
The church became too small for the parish in the 19th century. The parish priest planned to build a new, larger church. The old church was therefore torn down in 1880 and the structure was auctioned off.
Trond Eklestuen , a buyer and collector of old objects from northern Gudbrandsdal , bought most of the framework at this auction, while the baptismal font and the scorpionfish were taken to the Universitetets Oldsaksamling in Kristiania ( Oslo ). Later Trond Eklestuen came into contact with the collector Anders Sandvig and together they were able to collect most of the elements of the demolished church. On July 30, 1921, the reconstruction of the stave church in Maihaugen near Lillehammer was opened. The new parts are marked so that they can be distinguished from the original structure.
inventory
The baptismal font and a painting are now from the original inventory of the church. Most of the paintings are in the Glomdalsmuseet in Elverum . The dragon heads on the roof are housed in the Oldsaksamlingen Museum. The altar panels, the pulpit and many paintings are privately owned in Lom Commune .
The Romanesque soapstone baptismal font dates from the 12th century and was made in northern Gudbrandsdal. The wooden lid also comes from the Middle Ages. In the pre-Reformation period the baptismal water was only exchanged once a year and therefore the baptismal font had to be closed with a lid. There are also traces of a lock on the lid that should prevent the theft of the baptismal water. (At that time magical powers were ascribed to water).
The pulpit comes from Hustad Church in Fræna . It was made by Peder Knudsen Kjørsvik around 1730.
Garmo stave church is still used today as a church and is particularly popular for weddings in the summer months.
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)
Web links
- Christmas traditions changing (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 6 ′ 40 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 34 ″ E