Kvikne Church ( no, Kvikne kyrkje) is a

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of the Church of Norway in

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Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Kvikne Kvikne is a former municipality that was part of the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality of Kvikne existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1966 when it was split between the present-day municipalities of Tynset (in what is now Inn ...

. It is the church for the Kvikne

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which is part of the

Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar which includes all of Innlandet county (plus two municipalities in Viken (county), Viken county) in Norway. The list is divided into several sections ...

( deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1764 using plans drawn up by the

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Per Korpberget. The church seats about 160 people. The church cemetery has many old soapstone grave markers, several of which have been gathered under an awning. The church can be reached via Norwegian County Road 255.

History

The first church in Kvikne was a wooden

stave church A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts ar ...

that was likely built during the 14th century. This church was located at Sylte, about to the southeast of the present church site. It was located on a steep hillside overlooking a river. The old stave church was torn down in the late 1580s. A new

timber-framed Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large woode ...

church was built on the same site to replace it. In 1764, the old church was torn down and a new church was built on the site. The new

church was built under the leadership of Per Korpberget. It was consecrated in 1764. Eistein Kjørn created the

altar An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes. Altars are found at shrines, temples, churches, and other places of worship. They are used particularly in paga ...

and pulpit for the church. The pulpit was based on Jakob Klukstad's pulpit for Heidal Church (which burned in 1933). The altar was also inspired by the altar at Heidal Church, but Kjørn exercised somewhat greater freedom in his creation. The baptismal font is carved from soapstone and was transferred from the older Kvikne Church. In 1789, the Storofsen flood affected the area and this triggered some landslides. The church was partially hit by a landslide that caused some damage to the

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...

. After the flood, the decision was made to disassemble the church and to move it about to the northwest to the Tune farm where the ground was less steep. The fairly new church was rebuilt using the same design as before. It has a tower over the central part of the

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, and there is a

in the eastern cross arm and a sacristy in a small extension on the east end of the choir. The main entrance is on the west end, but there is also an entrance in the south end as well. The person responsible for the move was Jens Pedersen Korpberget (1753-1822), the son of Per Korpberget who built the church in 1764. The newly moved and rebuilt church was completed in 1790.

References

External links

Kvikne Church at the Church of Norway website

Kvikne Church at Kirkesøk

Kvikne Church at the Directorate for Cultural Heritage website
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