Summary
Kvinnherad Church (Norwegian: Kvinnherad kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kvinnherad Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Rosendal. It is the church for the Rosendal parish which is part of the Sunnhordland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in a long church design in the mid-1200s using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 380 people.[1][2]
| Kvinnherad Church | |
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| Kvinnherad kyrkje | |
 View of the church | |
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| 59°59′23″N 6°00′24″E / 59.98979880238°N 6.0067368149429°E | |
| Location | Kvinnherad, Vestland |
| Country | Norway |
| Denomination | Church of Norway |
| Previous denomination | Catholic Church |
| Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
| History | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Founded | 12th century |
| Consecrated | c. 1275 |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architectural type | Long church |
| Completed | c. 1275 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 380 |
| Materials | Stone |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Bjørgvin bispedømme |
| Deanery | Sunnhordland prosti |
| Parish | Kvinnherad |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Automatically protected |
| ID | 84867 |
History edit
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1306, but it was not new at that time. The first church at Kvinnherad, was possibly a wooden post church that was built in the 12th century. During the middle to late 13th century, the wooden church was torn down and a new stone church was built to replace it. In 1678, the church became part of the newly established Barony Rosendal, where many of the Rosenkrantz family are buried.[3][4][5]
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[6][7] 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.[6][8]
In 1910, the church was sold to the municipality. The building has been renovated and refurbished many times over the centuries, the most recent times were in 1913-1914 and in 1955.[5]
Media gallery edit
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Front of church -
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Exterior window -
Side door -
Interior view -
Churchyard
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Kvinnherad kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "Kvinnherad kyrkje" (in Norwegian). Kvinnherad kyrkjelege fellesråd. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ "Kvinnherad kyrkjestad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ a b Lidén, Hans-Emil. "Kvinnherad kirke" (in Norwegian). Norges Kirker. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Valgkartet". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.