Nesset Church
| Nesset Church | |
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| Nesset kyrkje | |
Molde domprosti | |
| Parish | Nesset |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Listed |
| ID | 85125 |
Nesset Church (
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church for the Nesset parish date back to 1589, but there are records of the
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]
In the 1870s, the parish decided to move the church about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the east, to the village of
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Location of the old "Rød" church
See also
References
- ^ "Nesset kyrkje, Eidsvåg" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ "Rød kirkested - Nesset gamle kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Nesset kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Valgkartet". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Nesset kirkested / Nesset kirke 2" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
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