St. Canute's Cathedral

The Kirke St Knud in Odense, Denmark is a gothic church on Funen and Cathedral of the local diocese. With 62 times 22 meters in floor area it is one of the larger churches in the country.

History

Even before 988 a bishopric called Othinia (today Odense) was established as a diocese of Hamburg -Bremen. It also included the southern Danish Baltic Sea islands. In 1072 it came under the jurisdiction of Roskilde, but was already then subordinate to the Archdiocese of Lund short.

King Canute the Holy, was killed on July 10, 1086 with 17 followers, including his brother Benedict in near- consider visiting in the Albani - church - of insurgents. At his grave before the high altar and miraculous healings of blind, deaf and sick took place, according to tradition. After the canonization of Canute 1101 the wooden building was replaced by a church made ​​of travertine, which was enlarged and remodeled 1300-1500. The completion of the tower took place only 1586th In the tower there are five bells housed from 1300, 1597, 1677, 1767 and 1880.

Equipment, tombs

The showpiece of the church is an altar of 1521, the main work of Lübeck woodcarver Claus Berg. It has similarities with the originating also from mountain altar in the Marienkirche Wittstock. It comes from the 1807 abandoned Franciscan church.

Canute and Benedict's remains are kept below the altar near the crypt.

Christina of Saxony was buried in the church.

The Great organ dates from 1752 and was made by Amdie Worm.

At the last restoration in 1870, the crypt was exposed again, which was closed during the Reformation.

Gothic altar

Bishop

The current Bishop of the members of the Danish National Church Church Tine Lindhardt.