Malnes Church
| Malnes Church | |
|---|---|
| Malnes kirke | |
Vesterålen prosti | |
| Parish | Bø og Malnes |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Not protected |
| ID | 84381 |
Malnes Church (
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1589, but the church was likely founded in the early 1500s. The first church at Malnes, near the village of Hovden. Around the year 1700, a new church building was constructed. It was likely a rectangular log building without a tower.[3]
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[4] 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][5]
By the early-1820s, the church had fallen into disrepair and was demolished in 1822. Rather than rebuilding on the same site, the church was rebuilt about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the south in the village of
See also
References
- ^ "Malnes kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Malnes gamle kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Malnes kirke" (in Norwegian). Bø kommune. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
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