Trysil Church

Trysil Church (Norwegian: Trysil kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Trysil Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Innbygda. It is the church for the Trysil parish which is part of the Sør-Østerdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform design in 1861 using plans drawn up by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch. The church seats about 560 people.[1][2]

Trysil Church
Trysil kirke
View of the church
61°19′01″N 12°15′40″E
LocationTrysil Municipality,
Innlandet
CountryNorway
DenominationChurch of Norway
Previous denominationCatholic Church
ChurchmanshipEvangelical Lutheran
History
StatusParish church
Founded14th century
Consecrated7 July 1861
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s)Christian Heinrich Grosch
Architectural typeCruciform
Completed1861 (1861)
Specifications
Capacity560
MaterialsWood
Administration
DioceseHamar bispedømme
DeanerySør-Østerdal prosti
ParishTrysil
TypeChurch
StatusProtected
ID85675

History

The first church in Trysil was likely a wooden stave church that may have been built in the 14th century. In 1563, the church was looted by the Swedish Army during the Northern Seven Years' War. The Swedes took all of the valuable, historic items in the church. In 1749, the old church was torn down. A new timber-framed cruciform church was built on the same site, being completed in 1750. It was consecrated in 1750.[3][4]

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]

By the 1850s, the church was considered to be too small and in need of replacement. In 1855, Christian Heinrich Grosch submitted designs for the new church that would be built a few meters to the north of the old church. It was difficult to find a builder, but eventually they hired Thomas Aasen who had built the Vallset Church. During the summer of 1857, however, Aasen and his workers had great difficulty in getting the tower to stand straight, so the parish relieved him of his duty and gave the job to Ole Lysvig, who completed the half-finished church. The church was consecrated on 7 July 1861. The old church was demolished the following year in 1862. Interestingly, there were problems with the structure of the tower about one year after the building was completed. The church was extensively restored in 1950.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Trysil kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  3. "Trysil kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. "Trysil kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  5. "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  6. "Valgkartet". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  7. "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

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