Kaupanger stave church
The Stave Church Kaupanger is a Norwegian stave church . It is located about ten kilometers southeast of the old trading center of Kaupanger on the Sognefjord . Today the church belongs to the Fortidsminneforeningen antiquity association .
history
The church is a successor to a previous church, which was mentioned in documents in the Sverris saga in 1183 and 1184 . After the population had murdered a royal messenger, the place was looted as a punishment and burned down along with the church. According to an archaeological study by Hans Emil Lidén, there were a total of 3 previous churches on the property. The current church was probably built shortly after the fire at the end of the 12th century. It was originally a long church with a rectangular nave, a narrower choir and an arcade on each side. In 1350 the ship was cut in half and mad. A new middle section was added, the church was extended by 3.5 meters.
In the 17th century and 1862 the church was rebuilt several times. It was restored in 1965 under the direction of the architect Kristian Bjerknes . The changes of the modern era were reduced as much as possible so that their appearance today mainly corresponds to that of the 17th century. She got horizontal paneling and windows were inserted. The ridge turret and armory were restored and the interior was redesigned.
Central nave and side aisles, ...
… Round arches and ceilings like in a Romanesque stone basilica
pulpit
Painting on the choir wall
Architecture and equipment
The church is one of the large mast churches of the Kaupanger group named after it. It has a length of 13.60 meters. A significant part of the original church has been preserved. Primary are the base, the hem boards, the masts, the wall boards and the deck bars as well as parts of the roof structure. The roof over the ship, on the other hand, is more recent. The original arcade was removed before 1600. What is striking about the construction of this 20-masted church is that the triforium with its supporting effect is missing and the masts are connected with only one arched disk. This is similar to the Urnes stave church. The gothic impression of the uninterrupted masts is softened by a false ceiling. The light holes are in the field above the arched panes. Furthermore, the church has a gallery inside, which means that the masts (with the exception of the corner masts) are in the nave and are not part of the outer wall. The church has an imposing turret with a pointed spire and four smaller side turrets, a south and west portal and a choir portal to the south. No portal is decorated with carvings.
Carving and picture on the choir partition
Choir with altar
Baptismal font
See also
literature
- Yasuo Sakuma and Ola Storsletten: The stave churches of Norway, masterpieces of Nordic architecture , Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-239-9
- Gunnar Bugge: Stav og laft i Norge: Early wooden architecture in Norway . 5th edition. Norsk arkitekturforlag, Oslo 1990, ISBN 978-82-7532-003-0 , p. 149-152 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilfried Koch: Architectural Style . 29th edition. Wissenmedia GmbH, Gütersloh / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-577-10231-5 , p. 138-139 .
Coordinates: 61 ° 11 '3 " N , 7 ° 14' 0.6" E