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Fuglse Church is a parish church located some south of Maribo on the Danish island of
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. The original Romanesque church was almost totally rebuilt in the
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style in the late 16th century. Standing prominently on a hilltop, the red-plastered building has a tall spire roofed in
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.Kirsten Weber-Andersen, Otto Norn, Aage Roussell, Gertrud Købke Knudsen, "Fuglse Kirke"
''Danmarks kirker: Maribo amt, Volume 8'', 1951, Nationalmuseet, pages 715-734. Retrieved 5 August 2013.


History

The medieval church was originally dedicated to St Lawrence but after it was rebuilt in 1595 it was dedicated to the
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. After the
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it was owned by the Crown until it was transferred to the prefect Henning Ulrich von Lützow in 1689 who gained ownership of nearby
Søholt Søholt is a manor house located on the southern shore of the Maribo Lakes on Lolland in southeastern Denmark. The main building is from 1804 but was adapted to the Renaissance Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival style in the second half of t ...
the following year. It later came into the ownership of Raben Huitfeld Levetzau til Kærstrup (1835) and then Baron Gottlob Rosenkrantz until it gained independence in 1916.


Architecture

The old Romanesque church fell into such a bad state of repair that it was almost completely rebuilt by Henning Gøye til Kærstrup og Søholt in 1595. Now in the Renaissance style, the church consists of a
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,
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and tower, with burial chapels to the north and south. Unusually, the north chapel is three-sided. More recently, a small porch was built on the west side of the tower. The chancel, nave and chapels are built of roughly-hued fieldstone with some brick while the tower is in red brick.


Interior

The Renaissance triptych
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(1610), partly reconstructed from an earlier five-winged Late-Gothic work, contains a copy of
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' ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' from 1618. The
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() bears copies of
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's carved figures of Peter, Paul and John which were added later. There are epitaphs to Henning Ulrich von Lützow and his two wives at the entrance to the burial chapel on the north side of the nave."Fuglse kirke, Lolland. Epitafium. Slægtstavler for Henning von Lützow og 2 hustruer"
www.gravstenogepitafier.dk. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
The rather primitive
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from the Romanesque period is in granite.


See also

*
List of churches on Lolland This is a list of churches on the island of Lolland in southeastern Denmark. The list See also * List of churches on Bornholm * List of churches on Falster References {{Lolland Lolland Lolland (; formerly spelled ''Laaland'', lite ...


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Fulse Church epitaphs
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