Hosanger Church Explained

Hosanger Church
Fullname:Hosanger kyrkje
Coordinates:60.5773°N 5.4748°W
Location:Osterøy Municipality,
Vestland
Country:Norway
Churchmanship:Evangelical Lutheran
Denomination:Church of Norway
Previous Denomination:Catholic Church
Diocese:Bjørgvin bispedømme
Parish:Hosanger
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Founded Date:13th century
Consecrated Date:1796
Architectural Type:Rectangular
Materials:Stone
Capacity:275

Hosanger Church (Norwegian: Hosanger kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Osterøy Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hosanger on the northern shore of the island of Osterøy. It is the church for the Hosanger parish which is part of the Åsane prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in a rectangular design in 1796 by the "leading men" of the parish. The church seats about 275 people.[1] [2]

History

There has been a church at Hosanger since the Middle Ages. The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1329, but it wasn't built that year. The first church at Hosanger was a wooden stave church that was likely built in the 13th century. Around the year 1600, the old church was torn down and replaced by a timber-framed long church. Around 1660, a tower was built on the church (this may have been a replacement of the original tower or it was the first tower on the church). A report from 1686 described as "very run down" because of poor exterior maintenance, which suggests that the church, at that time was already relatively old. The church nave measured about long and it had a square NaNm (-2,147,483,648feet) choir on the east end of the nave. In 1718, a new tower was built on the church. On Christmas Day 1795, lightning struck the church and it burned down. A new stone church was built on the same site the following year. The new church was rectangular with the nave and chancel in the same room. The stone church has walls measuring about thick.[3] [4] [5]

In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[6] [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.[8]

That stone church was renovated and enlarged from 1863–1865. During this project, the nave was extended about to the west. From 1962–1964, the architects Claus Lindstrøm and Jon Lindstrøm renovated the building again. This included the construction of a new sacristy on the south side of the church.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hosanger kyrkje . Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen . 2020-03-14.
  2. Web site: Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker . KirkeKonsulenten.no . Norwegian . 2020-03-14.
  3. Web site: Hosanger kyrkje . dead . Osterøy kyrkjeleg fellesråd . Norwegian . 2014-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130515165522/http://www.osteroy.kyrkja.no/Hosanger.html . 2013-05-15.
  4. Web site: Hosanger kirkested . . Norwegian . 2020-03-14.
  5. Web site: Hosanger kirke . Norges Kirker . Norwegian . 2020-03-14.
  6. Web site: Valgkirkene . 2021-11-07 . LokalHistorieWiki.no . Norwegian.
  7. Web site: Valgkartet . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205923/http://1814.arkivverket.no . 2021-06-24 . 2021-11-07 . Valgene i 1814 . Arkivverket . Norwegian.
  8. Web site: Om valgene . 2021-11-07 . Valgene i 1814 . Arkivverket . Norwegian . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205923/http://1814.arkivverket.no/#about-elections . dead .