Ringsaker Church

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Ringsaker Church
Ringsaker kirke
View of the church
View of the church
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Location Ringsaker Municipality,
Innlandet
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Previous denomination Catholic Church
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Founded c. 1150
Consecrated c. 1150
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architectural type Cruciform
Completed c. 1150
(874 years ago) (1150)
Specifications
Capacity 300
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Ringsaker
Deanery Ringsaker prosti
Diocese Hamar bispedømme
Ringsaker Church
Type Church
Status Automatically protected
ID 85297

Ringsaker Church (Norwegian: Ringsaker kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ringsaker Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Moelv. It is the church for the Ringsaker parish which is part of the Ringsaker prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, stone church was built in a cruciform design around the year 1150 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 300 people.[1][2]

History

The church in Ringsaker was built in the 12th century, possibly around the year 1150 or a little earlier. The Romanesque stone church originally had a long church design with a small choir and a large tower above the centre of the nave (the tower did not have a tall spire, however). In the late 1200s, the church was expanded and given a lot of Gothic features. The choir was enlarged to the east and the nave was expanded by adding transept wings to the north and south, creating a cruciform floor plan. Interestingly, the north wing is longer than the south wing. A large sacristy was built on the north side of the choir. In 1594, a man named Matz Tårnbygger built a spire on top of the stone tower. In 1652, Werner Olsen, the famous builder, constructed a new tower and spire. On 22 September 1669, the tower blew down in a storm. The church sat without a spire for many years until 1694 when Oluf Iversen Helmen built a new 64-metre (210 ft) tall spire.[3][4]

In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[5][6] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.[5][7]

Media gallery

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  • Ringsaker, Norway - panoramio (1).jpg
  • Ringsaker kirke - no-nb digifoto 20150206 00054 NB MIT FNR 15888.jpg
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  • Skipet i Ringsaker kirke.JPG
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  • Ringsaker kirkes indre.jpg
  • Alteret i Ringsaker kirke.JPG
  • Dåpshus fra Ringsaker NF.1941-0148.jpg
  • 11584 Ringsaker - Interiør fra den ca 900 år gamle kirke - no-nb digifoto 20150812 00059 bldsa PK26216 (cropped).jpg

See also

References

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