# Ringsaker Church

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Church in Innlandet, Norway

Church in Innlandet, Norway

Ringsaker Church Ringsaker kirke View of the church Ringsaker Church 60°54′10″N 10°43′29″E / 60.9028163353°N 10.72478055953°E / 60.9028163353; 10.72478055953 Location Ringsaker Municipality, Innlandet Country Norway Denomination Church of Norway Previous denomination Catholic Church Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran History Status Parish church Founded c. 1130 Consecrated c. 1130 Architecture Functional status Active Architectural type Cruciform Completed c. 1130 (896 years ago) (1130) Specifications Capacity 300 Materials Stone Administration Diocese Hamar bispedømme Deanery Ringsaker prosti Parish Ringsaker Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site Type Church Status Automatically protected ID 85297

**Ringsaker Church** ([Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language): *Ringsaker kirke*) is a [parish church](/source/Parish_church) of the [Church of Norway](/source/Church_of_Norway) in [Ringsaker Municipality](/source/Ringsaker_Municipality) in [Innlandet](/source/Innlandet) county, [Norway](/source/Norway). It is located in the village of [Moelv](/source/Moelv). It is the church for the Ringsaker [parish](/source/Parish) which is part of the [Ringsaker prosti](/source/Ringsaker_prosti) ([deanery](/source/Deanery)) in the [Diocese of Hamar](/source/Diocese_of_Hamar). The white, stone church was built in a [cruciform](/source/Churches_in_Norway#Floor_plan) design around the year 1130 using plans drawn up by an unknown [architect](/source/Architect). The church seats about 300 people.[1][2]

## History

The church in Ringsaker was built in the 12th century, possibly around the year 1130 or a little earlier. Ringsaker church is one of the best kept medieval stone churches in Norway, which has most of the original medieval features intact. The [Romanesque](/source/Romanesque_architecture) stone church originally had a [long church](/source/Long_church) design with a small [choir](/source/Choir_(architecture)) and a large tower above the centre of the nave (the tower did not have a tall spire, however). In the late 1200s, the church was expanded and given a lot of [Gothic](/source/Gothic_architecture) features. The choir was enlarged to the east and the [nave](/source/Nave) was expanded by adding [transept](/source/Transept) wings to the north and south, creating a [cruciform](/source/Cruciform) floor plan. Interestingly, the north wing is longer than the south wing. A large [sacristy](/source/Sacristy) was built on the north side of the choir. In 1594, a man named Matz Tårnbygger built a spire on top of the stone tower. In 1652, [Werner Olsen](/source/Werner_Olsen), the famous builder, constructed a new tower and spire. On 22 September 1669, the tower blew down in a storm. The church sat without a spire for many years until 1694 when Oluf Iversen Helmen built a new 64-metre (210 ft) tall spire.[3][4]

The church has Norway’s third largest collection of stone grave memorials from the medieval times, the majority of these are found inside the church.

In 1814, this church served as an [election church](/source/Election_church) ([Norwegian](/source/Norwegian_language): *valgkirke*).[5][6] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 [Norwegian Constituent Assembly](/source/Norwegian_Constituent_Assembly) which wrote the [Constitution of Norway](/source/Constitution_of_Norway). This was Norway's first national elections. Each [church parish](/source/Prestegjeld) was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet at [Eidsvoll Manor](/source/Eidsvoll_Manor) later that year.[5][7]

## Media gallery

## See also

- [List of churches in Hamar](/source/List_of_churches_in_Hamar)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Ringsaker kirke"](https://kirkesok.no/kirke/041200101). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker"](http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm) (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-kms_3-0)** ["Ringsaker kirkested"](http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=85297) (in Norwegian). [Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage](/source/Norwegian_Directorate_for_Cultural_Heritage). Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-NK_4-0)** ["Ringsaker kirke"](https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/hedmark/ringsaker-kirke/). *Norges-Kirker.no* (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-lhw_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-lhw_5-1) ["Valgkirkene"](https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Valgkirkene). *LokalHistorieWiki.no* (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Valgkartet"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205923/http://1814.arkivverket.no/). *Valgene i 1814* (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from [the original](http://1814.arkivverket.no/) on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Om valgene"](http://1814.arkivverket.no/#about-elections). *Valgene i 1814* (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 7 January 2022.

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