Oddernes Church
Oddernes Church | |
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Oddernes kirke | |
Kristiansand domprosti | |
Parish | Oddernes |
Type | Church |
Status | Automatically protected |
ID | 85198 |
Oddernes Church (
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History
Rune stone
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Founding of the church
Findings in
Gifts and expansion
In the 1630s, the church
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A new interior was installed in the church in 1788 and was elaborately decorated. In the early 1800s, a sacristy was built on the north side of the choir. The decorations and embellishments of the minstrel's gallery and the walls were covered with brown paint in 1827 (until 1927 when the paint was removed).[5][6]
Election church
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[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.[7][8]
Parish center
In the 1970s, a parish center was built about 200 metres (660 ft) north of the church. It includes a parish hall and offices for the parish.[5][3]
Cemetery
Kristiansand's largest cemetery surrounds the church. The cemetery has memorials of all kinds of faith. There is also a separate grave chapel adjacent to the cemetery and a congregation house which is associated with Oddernes Church.[5]
Media gallery
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Front of church
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Side window detail
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Back side of church
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Side view of the church
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Exterior view of the churchyard
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Oddernes stone inside the church
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Former location of the Oddernes stone.
Source: Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage -
The church as it probably looked like before the expansion in 1630. Source: Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage
See also
References
- ^ "Oddernes kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Oddernes kirke". Norske-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). 29 October 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Oddernes kirke" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Peersen, Erik, ed. (1990). Oddernes kirke 950 år (in Norwegian). Kristiansand.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c d "Oddernes Church". AgderKultur.no. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 10 January 2021.