Bjelland Church
| Bjelland Church | |
|---|---|
| Bjelland kirke | |
Lister og Mandal prosti | |
| Parish | Marnardal |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Automatically protected |
| ID | 83894 |
Bjelland Church (
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1413, but it was not new that year. The first church on the site was possibly a stave church and it was torn down around the year 1636 and it was replaced with a new building. In 1793, the church building was described as "so rotten and dilapidated that it is next to useless" (Norwegian: «så forråtten og brøstfeldig at den er neste ubrukelig»). That year, it was torn down and replaced with a new, timber-framed cruciform building.[3]
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[citation needed] 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.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Bjelland kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ "Bjelland kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
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