Essenbæk Church
Essenbæk Church () is a parish church in Assentoft, Denmark. It oversees Essenbæk Parish in Randers Southern Provostship within the Diocese of Aarhus. A church is believed to have existed on the site since the 12th century. Old Essenbæk Church stood on the site until 1865, when it was torn down to construct a new church. The current church was completed in 1869 in the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque style. History Old Essenbæk Church An earlier church was built on a hill in the Hundreds of Denmark, hundred Sønderhald Hundred, Haldherred probably in the 12th century, and is known from the 13th century as Essenbæk (Eskingbec) - a name which perhaps refers to the present Volkmølle Creek (''Volkmølle Bæk''). The first particle ''esking'' supposedly means an inhabitant of Assentoft, but the creek seems later to have been named after a Fulling#Fulling mills, fulling mill (''valkemølle''), which in time, however, was used as gristmill. The church was first built in R ...
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Church Of Denmark
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church, sometimes called the Church of Denmark ( da, Folkekirken, literally: "The People's Church" or unofficially da, Den danske folkekirke, literally: "The Danish People's Church"; kl, Ilagiit, literally: "The Congregation"), is the established, state-supported church in Denmark. The supreme secular authority of the church is composed of the reigning monarch and Denmark's Parliament, the Folketing. , 73.2% of the population of Denmark are members,Church membership 1990-2021
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