Flesberg stave church

The Stave Church Flesberg is a converted to a cruciform church stave church in the village of Flesberg. It is located in the municipality of the same name in the Norwegian province of Buskerud, on the northern side of the river Numedalslågen in Numedal. The vicarage, who gave his name to the church and the town is located about 200 meters south-east. The church belongs together with the vein Church and the Church Lyngdal prestegjeld to Flesberg. The Prestegjeld is headed by a diocese of the Norwegian Church and corresponds approximately to a German church game. In this Prestgjeld Stave Church Flesberg is the main church.

History

The emergence of the Church can not be determined exactly. It is reported that the church originally stood on the land court, which is located about three kilometers east away from the present site. The Church in Flesberg is mentioned for the first time in 1359 in a document. But starting from the style of the portal and a painting of the old stave church, it is believed that they originated in the period around 1200 or later.

With the Reformation in Norway, in 1537, led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church as the state religion. In the records of Bishop Jens Nilsson is to read that in the stave church choir continues the fair was held, an annual festival of the church consecration of Catholic times. He was angered and made this " papal bad habits " from. Municipalities in Numedal paid no tithe and the construction of churches was made possible only through donations and the community itself. Furthermore, the Prestgjeld had no church grounds from which it could draw rental income and so no maintenance work on the churches were made. By the time lapsed the stave church and was, as the main church of the Prestegjelds, also too small. In 1735, the stave church was converted into a cruciform church under the leadership of Superintendent Berthelsen. Here we removed the portico, all inner masts, together with the internal support system and the roof, leaving only the outer walls of dealing are obtained. To the east you tore the outer wall down also to allow an opening for cultivation. The stave church now forms the western arm of the cross of the Holy Cross Church.

Architecture

The Stave Church

From the original stave church is only received very little fabric and the appearance has changed a lot. However, the image of Anselmi Dag from 1701 gives an impression of the former church. The picture shows the northern view of a mature mast church. She has a fine nave with roof skylights, a choir and an apse with a round apse turrets. Around the church, a portico is located and to the west is a porch. The roofs, walls and visible masts are fully covered with a wood shingle facade. With approximately 6.00 m × 7.70 m stave church has a similar footprint as other stave churches with elevated central nave. If choir and apse followed the same pattern, the choir would have been approximately square with approximately three by three meters and a slightly narrower apse with a diameter of about three meters. Under the floor and in today's foundation wall parts of the base frame of the stave church are still preserved. The horizontal bar of the base frame have round peg holes on the Überblattungspunkten, in which the four masts were admitted. This stood on a foundation of stones. To the short sides of the frame, no further holes can be recognized and the longitudinal sides are cut off, so that possible intermediate poles are not detectable. It may therefore have been a four- or eight- pole Church. The Eckmasten, also called rods, having a diameter of 40 to 45 centimeters. You have at the foot of a bell-shaped base, which closes up with two annular beads. In the base there are rectangular recesses in which thresholds are clamped. The thresholds are additionally fixed by two projecting beams of the basic Stocks Between the Eckmasten, where they are embedded in a wide shallow recess. The trapezoidal thresholds are 50 to 60 cm high and 20 cm above and below 30 cm wide. On the capitals of Eckmasten thresholds are also clamped. The thresholds provide a context in which the walls are clamped from standing planks together with the Eckmasten. With each other, the boards are connected to each other by the tongue-and- groove principle, wherein the groove on the broad side of the asymmetric cross-section. The piles reached a height 3.97 to 4.06 meters. In a restoration in 1955 was found under the floor 20 wall planks that come from the demolition of the stave church. Two of these planks may come from the east wall and flanked the opening from the choir to the apse. The outer sides of the planks have an additional groove, probably the apse wall was fitted therein. There is a recess for a horizontal bar, which was stretched across the 2.20 meter wide apse opening at the top. A track on the sides of the planks to Apisöffnung indicates the support of the beam by a bow the knee, a rectangular plate having an arcuate cutout. Furthermore, they found four upper thresholds of the portico. Your top is beveled and it has cutouts for rafters. Nail holes indicate fastened flexible roof planks. There is a groove in which the wall planks were clamped at the bottom. They are 40 to 47 inches high and 7.5 inches thick. On the thresholds of dealing inside and outside sitting small rectangular planer profiles. One of the thresholds found also has such a profile. This may mean that it is the original thresholds of the portico. The salvaged planks and sleepers are now in the Universitetets Oldsaksamling in Oslo. The painting shows a windowless portico, sometimes called the upper room, and also the usual light holes on the upper nave missing. However, there are three windows in the handling of the nave and one in the choir. It is small, close to square, four-part transom windows. In the west there is a porch, the roof of which is divided into two levels. The lower roof is a pitched roof at the same height of the portico. The upper, a gable roof, sitting on the amount of handling. About the construction of the roof of the stave church is not known. You probably had a rafter roof with collar beams in the upper middle part and a simple rafter roof over the porch. About the apse handling was according to the painting a two-stage cylindrical structure with a domed roof. The externally applied wooden shingles were fastened with wooden pegs and tarred. The roof-mounted rider there may have been around since the Middle Ages. In 1577, two bells are mentioned in the tower, but nothing is reported about the appearance or construction. In 1621 the church was given a new roof skylights. This was octagonal, high and had on the tip of a forged rod with a ball and flag. Each of the eight wall panels had a light hole in the form of an arched window. Presumably it is the roof turret on the painting.

The Cross Church

In 1735 a major change took place. Except for the outer walls of the walkway and the base frame stave church was demolished to close completely. To the east it extended them to cross church with six meters long and wide cross arms. The stave church forms the western wing. The eastern transept of the church has the same height as the Western, the transept sitting but something deeper. The attached walls are made in log construction and iron bolts in the walls connecting the stave with the new building. The stacked wood logs of the association are sent carves round and visible to the toothed end on end to form hexagons. The exterior walls were probably currently exempt from the wood shingles and exposed to the weather conditions. In 1776, one clad the walls with vertical boards and wrote it off. Two years later, the facade was tarred. 1829 repeated this process with you under mixed red-brown color. 1870, the church received a new exterior trim and seven years later they also paneled inside. The renovation work in the 1950s and 60s was removed these panels again and the church was again a new tarred exterior facade.

Since the increased nave stave church was removed, the entire church was given a new gabled roof. Inside, a ceiling covered over the joists to the roof of the Pfettendachs. After the conversion, the roof was re- covered with tarred wood shingles. Only in 1864 it managed to 5,000 tiles that cover the roof since then. The roof riders from the former roof of the stave church was removed in the conversion and probably received its original place on the new roof above the stave church. In the church records no entry on the new roof turret is occupied before 1793. 1819 and 1835, the roof turret was repaired and painted and is preserved to this day. He is also octagonal, but has only four sky-lights, which are oriented to the north, east, south and west. They are sold with a twelve inch wide gray white stripes of the red walls. In addition, each has a red shutters. The walls of the tower consist of lying, beveled planks, which are covered at the corners with white gray bars. The roof is covered with zinc plates, and emblazoned on the top of a small decorated with ornaments rod.

The bottom of the stave church consists of wide planks, and was obtained in the conversion for the most part. It is mounted on the base frame with wooden nails and has an east -west orientation. The bottom of the handling is rotated by 90 degrees. 1760 and 1811, the soil was again repaired and in 1868 moved to a new ground a. It was moved to the planks on the old ground. In a renovation in the 20th century was lifted to the floor of the choir in the eastern wing slightly above the usual level.

The vestry was added between the eastern and northern wings Upon request of the Superintendent. The walls in the logs Association were probably dressed up to the 19th century with wooden shingles. The shed roof with a slope to the north was like the rest of the roof a tile roof. It has a door to the choir in the east wing to the south and a door to the cemetery in the north. A lattice window is located in the east wall.

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