Kolt Church (
Danish
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: Kolt Kirke) is a church located in
Kolt
Kolt or kolty was a part of a female headgear, hanging on a ryasna at both temples as a sign of family's wealth, common in 11th-13th centuries in Old Rus'. It comprised a pair of metal pieces, joined to form a hollow medallion or star that ...
Parish in
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
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. The church is situated in the
Hasselager
Hasselager is a small suburban area in the south-western part of Aarhus in Denmark. It is about 8 km from the city center and has approximately 7.437 (2018) residents, mostly of Danish heritage.
Hasselager has largely merged with neighbouring ...
neighborhood, south-west of
Viby. It is a parish church of the
Church of Denmark and there's population of 6.973 within the parish borders (2016).
History
Kolt Church was built sometime between 1150 and 1250 like most of the small Danish village churches. It is probable that the king had the patronage of Kolt Church in the
Middle Ages
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. In 1433 it is mentioned as ''Vor Frue Kirke'' (Church of Our Lady), as written on the altar
chalice. In the period between 1661 and 1675 the
Danish crown sold the church to the Count Mogens Friis who made it a part of the duchy
Frijsenborg
Frijsenborg is a manor house and estate near Hammel, northwest of Aarhus in Jutland, Denmark. The first manor on the site known as Jernit was built by Valdemar Parberg in 1583. After the statesman Mogens Friis acquired the property in 1672, the m ...
. In 1802 the church was sold on auction to members of the parish and in 1924 it became a self-owning institution. Since the 1550s the church has functioned as a church annex to the village
Ormslev under joint supervision of Ormslev-Kolt Church Office (Ormslev-Kolt kirkekontor). In 1819 the position as church guardian was temporary and passed around in the parish resulting in poor maintenance as nobody wanted to invest in maintenance and renovation during their short tenures. Today Kolt Church is situated in a neighborhood of Aarhus.
Architecture
Kolt Church consists of
Romanesque apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...
,
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ove ...
and
nave
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with two late-Medieval additions: the porch in the south and the tower in the west. The Romanesque sections are built of rough and hewn
granite
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boulders on a chamfered base;
ashlar
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were used in the corners and around the windows and doors. Gothic vaults were included in the chancel and nave in the late Middle Age. In the masonry of the tower a quantity of re-used granite ashlar is included which may have been brought here from a demolished church. The spire, which is in a
mansard style, was erected in the 1700s.
See also
*
List of Churches in Aarhus
References
External links
Kolt Church WebsiteChurch of Denmark's page for Kolt Parish
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Lutheran churches in Aarhus
Lutheran churches converted from Roman Catholicism
Churches in the Diocese of Aarhus