Old Tingelstad Church

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The old church Tingelstad ( Tingelstad gamle kirke )
The west wall of the Tingelstad gamle kirke. The original ship's flag from Tingelstad was on its wooden tower , today the replica is attached there.

The Evangelical Lutheran Old Church Tingelstad, Norwegian Tingelstad gamle kirke , nynorsk Tingelstad gamle kyrkje , with the original official name St. Petri Kirke Tingelstad ( St. Petri Church Tingelstad ), is an old stone church from the Middle Ages that was built around 1220. As St. Peter's Church , it was consecrated to the Apostle Peter . The church is located in Tingelstad in the Gran Kommune in Innlandet , Norway .

History and description

The old church of Tingelstad is a typical Romanesque village church. It is 21 m long and 11 m wide. The nave has a length of 14 m. The choir has a size of 7 × 8.5 m and the church has seats for about 100 people. It was originally built as a private church for a local farm, but was subsequently used as the local parish church. The church is made of natural stone that was quarried in the Buhammeren area . The roof structure and the beams of the nave date from the Middle Ages and, according to dendrochronological dating, the trees of the wood used for this were felled between 1219 and 1220.

Inside the church there is a crucifix and stone altar from the Middle Ages. The interior decoration was created between the 15th and 16th centuries. The pulpit is dated to 1579. The 1699 altarpiece was created by an unknown artist. It depicts Mary with the child and four scenes from the childhood of Jesus. A unique large coat of arms, created in 1632, is located on the north wall inside the churches. It represents the Danish-Norwegian kingdom coat of arms of 1599 shows.

For a long time there was a weather vane on the wooden church tower from the Middle Ages , which was a former ship vane from the post-Viking era of the 12th century and was made of gold-plated copper sheet. Today there is a replica of the flag on the church tower, while the original of the Tingelstad ship's flag has been exhibited in the Kulturhistorisk Museum of the University of Oslo since 1985 . The ship's flag used to be attached to the bow of a Viking ship. Another preserved ship flag from the Viking Age in Norway comes from Heggen . There are also two flags from Söderala and Källunge in Sweden .

The Tingelstad gamle kirke was closed due to a law of 1851, which states that a church must have space for at least 1/5 of the believers in a place and it was therefore decided to build a new, larger church in Tingelstad. In 1866 the new Tingelstad Church was completed and inaugurated and has since been named after its predecessor St. Petri Kirke Tingelstad ( St. Petri Church Tingelstad ). The old Tingestad Church was closed and modernized at this time, but later used again for church purposes. Today it is part of an open-air museum and the Hadeland Folk Museum , which is in the immediate vicinity.

In Tingelstad there used to be another church, the Grindaker Stave Church ( Grinaker stavkirke ), but it was demolished around 1866 because it was found to be too small.

The old and new St. Petri Church are located on the pilgrimage route to Nidaros Cathedral, which opened in 1997, as a connection between the Nidaros in Trondheim and Oslo .

literature

  • Øystein Ekroll, Morten Stige, Jiri Havran: Kirkene i Norge ( no ), Middelalder i stein. Edition, Volume Volume 1, ARFO, Oslo 2000, ISBN 82-91399-09-3 , pp. 62-65.
  • Alf Henry Rasmussen: Våre kirker. Norsk kirkeleksikon ( Norwegian ). Vanebo forlag, Kirkenær 1993, ISBN 82-7527-022-7 , p. 584.
  • Bugge is different: Hadeland: Bygdenes historie ( Norwegian ), Kirkene i gammel og ny tid. Edition, Volume I, Nationaltrykkeriet, Oslo 1932, pp. 206-223.
  • Ellen Marie Magerøy: Norsk treskurd ( Norwegian ), Det Norske Samlaget. 1983 edition, ISBN 8252123414 , pp. 144-145.
  • Martin Blindheim: De gyldne skipsfløyer fra sen vikingtid. Bruk og teknikk ( Norwegian , PDF), Volume Volume XLV1-1982, Viking, Oslo 1983 (accessed March 18, 2014).
  • Unn Plather, Erla B. Hohler, Nigel J. Morgan and Anne Wichstrøm: Painted Alterfrontals of Norway 1250-1350 ( Norwegian ). Norway, Oslo 2005, ISBN 1-873132-93-X .

Web links

Commons : Alte Kirche Tingelstad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Jankuhn, Heinrich Beck et al .: Keyword: Weather vane , Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. . Edition, Volume Volume 33, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, p. 555.
  2. ↑ Jan Bill: Ship graffiti. ( English ) Vikingeskibs Museet, picture sources. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Gamle Tingelstad kirke. (pdf) In: Hadeland Folkemuseum og Tingelstad gamle kirke. Håndboka er tilgjengelig på internet via Randsfjordmuseenes hjemmeside. Randsfjordmuseene, 2007, archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 18, 2014 (Norwegian).

Coordinates: 60 ° 23 '38.1 "  N , 10 ° 30' 36.8"  E