Ottestad Church

{{short description|Church in Innlandet, Norway}} {{Infobox church |name = Ottestad Church |full_name = Ottestad kirke |former_name = |image = Ottestad kirke.jpg |caption = View of the church |website = |coordinates = {{coord|60.757325548685|11.14471390843|region:NO_type:landmark|display=inline,title|format=dms}} |location = [[Stange Municipality]],<br />[[Innlandet]] |country = [[Norway]] |churchmanship = [[Evangelical Lutheran]] |denomination = [[Church of Norway]] |previous_denomination = [[Catholic Church]] |diocese = [[Diocese of Hamar|Hamar bispedømme]] |deanery = [[Hamar domprosti]] |parish = Ottestad |status = [[Parish church]] |functional_status = Active |founded = 13th century |consecrated = 17 January 1731 |completed = {{Start date and age|p=y|1731}} |closed = |events = |architect = Even Baardset |architectural_type = [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|Cruciform]] |style = |materials = Wood |capacity = 350 |embedded = {{Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site |embed = yes |Type = Church |Status = Automatically protected |ID = 85254 }} }}

'''Ottestad Church''' ({{langx|no|Ottestad kirke}}; historic: {{lang|non|Óttarstaða kirkja}}) is a [[parish church]] of the [[Church of Norway]] in [[Stange Municipality]] in [[Innlandet]] county, [[Norway]]. It is located in the village of [[Ottestad]]. It is the church for the Ottestad [[parish]] which is part of the [[Hamar domprosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Hamar]]. The white, wooden church was built in a [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|cruciform]] design in 1731 using plans drawn up by the [[architect]] Even Baardset. The church seats about 350 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ottestad kirke |url=https://kirkesok.no/kirke/041700201 |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker |url=http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=KirkeKonsulenten.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==History== The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the mid-13th century when it was mentioned in the book [[Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar]] as {{lang|non|Óttarstaða kirkja}} near [[Hamar]]. This church was a wooden [[stave church]] that was likely built during the early 13th century. Not much is known about this old building. This building was located on a different site, about {{convert|200|m}} to the southwest of the present church site. By the early 1600s, the church was described as being "dilapidated and old-fashioned". Around the year 1627, the old church was torn down and a new church was built on the same site. The church tower was built in 1630. The church didn't take long to fall into disrepair and by the early 1700s, the church was already rotting and beginning to fall apart. Also, the parish council determined that the church was not built at a good location and set out to find a new location nearby for the church. In 1730, a new church was built about {{convert|200|m}} to the northeast of the old church site. The new church was a [[half-timbered]] [[cruciform]] building that was built by [[Even Baardset]] who modeled the church after the [[Oslo Cathedral|Our Saviour's Church]] in [[Oslo|Christiania]]. The new church was [[consecrated]] on 17 January 1731.<ref name="kms">{{Cite web |title=Ottestad kirkested |url=http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=85254 |access-date=2022-01-04 |publisher=[[Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage]] |language=Norwegian}}</ref><ref name="NK">{{Cite web |title=Ottestad kirke |url=https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/hedmark/ottestad-kirke/ |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=Norges-Kirker.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==Media gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="180px"> Ottestadkrk.jpg Ottestad kirke TRS.jpg Ottestad T101 01 0225.jpg Prekestol i Ottestad kirke 0417-05761.jpg Altertavle i Ottestad kirke 0417-05639.jpg 264 Ottestad kirke - no-nb digifoto 20150806 00073 bldsa PK27301.jpg </gallery>

==See also== *[[List of churches in Hamar]]

==References== {{reflist}}

[[Category:Stange Municipality]] [[Category:Churches in Innlandet]] [[Category:Cruciform churches in Norway]] [[Category:Wooden churches in Norway]] [[Category:18th-century Church of Norway church buildings]] [[Category:Churches completed in 1731]] [[Category:13th-century establishments in Norway]]