Church in Norway where Gunneld (Gunhild) was baptized

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Flåbygd church

Flåbygd church is located in Lunde and Flåbygd sokn in Øvre Telemark prosti. It is built in wood and was built in 1822. The church has a crossroads. The church has protection status automatically listed (1650-1850).
Architect: Gunnar Knutson Saga.


1800s

Throughout the 1800's, both the church structures, administration and the technical prerequisites for church buildings were changed. The century began with a careful church building, characterized by classical forms, and was completed with the tallest church building activity since the Middle Ages, inspired especially by the Gothic cathedrals.

Better production and craftsmanship enabled the church buildings to get a lighter form and became richer in detail. Still, the layman technique dominated, but the timber was more processed, and the churches often received panels both outside and inside. Of churches still standing from the period, there are close to 40% long churches, while octagonal churches and church churches make up about 30% each.

Until 1850, there were few changes in the soccer structure, and most new churches were therefore built to replace the elderly. Uptimes and continued population growth around the mid-1800s reinforced an already strong lag in the church building. Even many of the 17th and 17th century churches were now too small. A new church law in 1851 required the churches to accommodate 3/10 of the congregation. This, along with the creation of new sokn, led to an explosive construction activity. In the last half of the 1800s, 623 new churches were built and torn 390 years old.

To solve this formidable task, some of the country's foremost architects, such as Linstow, Nebelong, Grosch, Nordan and Schirmer, were engaged as government advisors. The Church Department issued collections of pattern drawings that the local church builders could use or adapt as needed. In this way, the church building contributed to spreading international architectural impulses. The Gothic style was chosen as the indisputable, sacred model, but it often retrieved detail elements from today's popular tree-style, Swiss style. Thus, the neo-Gothic white tree of the country became the prototype of a Norwegian church.
(translated from Norwegian by Google Translate)