Manheim is a heathen hof in Korinth in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, Denmark. The building opened in 2016 and is dedicated to the

Norse gods Norse is a demonym for Norsemen, a medieval North Germanic ethnolinguistic group ancestral to modern Scandinavians, defined as speakers of Old Norse from about the 9th to the 13th centuries. Norse may also refer to: Culture and religion * Nors ...

. It is owned by the designer

Jim Lyngvild Jim Lyngvild (born 27 December 1978) is a Danish designer, writer, photographer, fashion columnist and television personality. Career Lyngvild grew up in Albertslund and was educated at Fashion Design Akademiet in Copenhagen in 2000–2002. H ...

History

The building was built at the instigation of the Danish designer

and is the first pagan hof in Denmark since the time of the Middle Ages. It was built in three weeks by Lyngvild and a group of friends, and was finished by the end of March 2016. The inauguration took place on 30 May 2016. Participating at the event were Lyngvild's friends

Pia Kjærsgaard Pia Merete Kjærsgaard (; born 23 February 1947) is a Danish politician who was Speaker of the Danish Parliament from 2015 to 2019, and former leader of the Danish People's Party. She is a co-founder of the Danish People's Party, and led the ...

, Speaker of the Danish Parliament, who cut the ribbon, and

Inger Støjberg Inger Støjberg (born 16 March 1973) is a Danish politician, businesswoman and former reporter who served as a government minister in the Danish Parliament. Støjberg served as the minister for gender equality from 2009 to 2010, as minister fo ...

, the Danish Minister for Integration, who performed the naming ceremony, naming the building Manheim () in beer. Kjeld Holm, a former

Bishop of Aarhus The former Diocese of Aarhus ( da, Aarhus Stift) was a Roman Catholic diocese in Denmark, founded in the 10th century and dissolved during the Protestant Reformation. The diocese included the counties of Aarhus and Randers, the islands of Sams ...

, called it "grotesque" that the two politicians had participated at the event, saying that they never would have done the same for a

mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...

Architecture and design

Manheim is located near Lyngvild's home, the "viking castle" Ravnsborg, at the town Korinth on

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

. It is 12 meters high and has a floor area of 6 × 13 meters. The design was inspired by the excavations of the

Uppåkra temple Remains of an Iron Age building interpreted as the possible remains of a temple were excavated in Uppåkra, south of Lund in Scania, Sweden, from 2000–2004.

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conte ...

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