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Where the present church building
is standing once stood a wooden church which has been dated
back to appr. 1150. The exact date is not known. At that
time it was named Sct. Joergens gaard (st. george's yard)
and it was erected for the leprous when the decease ravaged
Europa and it was necessary to hide away the infected because
of the lack of medical means. A collection of small wooden
houses plus a little wooeden church was constructed outside
the city, as there were ca. 40 other places in the country,
but this is the only still existing. As the this yard gradually
became more welthy by cherities an the like it had enough
money to build a church of stone. This was finished late
in the 11th century.
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| During the
restoration in 1960-65 the church was taken back to
its original appearance. Among other things the floor
was lowered 60 cm whereby there were found traces
of the old wooden church. The interior was also replaced. |
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| By the restoration
fractions of the original glas mosaic windows were
found and the artist Sven Havsteen got the task of
making new windows. |
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In the next couple of centuries the church had
three expansions made. One ekstra section to the west, a southern
cross arm and the tower to the west. These st. george yards
were stopped in 1542 when leprosy and the black deadth almost
had vanished. These yards continued as homes for poor and
weak without family for support. It now functioned as a church
for all citizens in the parish. It has had a some restorations
since then. The building next to the church is the hospital
from that time. Today, there are plans to make into a parish
community centre.
Read more in the leaflet found in the porch.
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The font has
been in the church since some time after the reformation,
but is made around 1250. It is carved out of gotlandish
sandstone. |
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The jerusalem cross, as it is called, is a symbol of expansion
of the evangelium to the four corners of the world. It
is made in guld with four polished rose quarz. The cross
in the middle has nine motives from the old testament
made with the technique called "email cloisoné". The Jerusalem
coss is made by Bent Lexner. |
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| The schooner to the right is
named Peder Most and is donated by shipowner Mogens
Huusfeldt soerensen in 1991. On the left is seen "Sct.
Joergen(st. George), a three mast full-rigged ship donated
by farmer Niels Brydegaard around 1940. |
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