Stora Tuna Kyrka
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N 60° 27.108 E 015° 28.449
33V E 526085 N 6701822
[eng]Take a picture infront of the church so the clock i shoving and point your arms the way the clock shows.
Waymark Code: WMF2WV
Location: Dalarna, Sweden
Date Posted: 08/13/2012
Views: 16
Stora Tuna church is one of Dalarna's finest buildings, one of the nation's largest rural churches, destined to become a cathedral in "Dalarna and Bergslagen above Long Heden" pin (a function, it also had the second half of the 1500s). It was built over the foundations of an older in the 1200s built stone church, which in turn was developed shrine whose land was sacred since pagan times, when dedicated to the Norse god Freyr, but also a meeting place for "Tuna things." Since then, the church has undergone some restoration.
Already in the early 1900s removed the side of the stands, and in 1968 built the stands on, aisle stands and the west grandstand was demolished, remained central portion which carries the great organ and a much brighter church was created. During this stand was set up new spaces. The sacristy "cleared" and was decorated in a simple and as future requirements functionally. Much of the interior of the church was painted reddish brown.
1994-95 was as church an exterior renovation with plaster and sheet. So in 2000 there was a renovation of the spaces below and to the side of the organ loft. This meant that the pews in the church and southwestern nordvästradel and two front benches were removed. The windows were painted inside and out, font moved to the other side of the altar, almost choir organ.
EXTERIOR, TOWER and WATCHES
Day appearance church got back in the 1469th The church is built of stone and parts of the brick. Originally untrimmed, now white stucco and fitted with slate roofs.
The first tower was built in the mid 1500s but was destroyed by fire early 1590th A new erected in 1610 on the remains of the walls, the spire extending 76 m high (a journeyman's examination of the two Dutch Hubert and Gerhard de bêche, who later also had to erect spiers of both the Uppsala Cathedral and the German Church in Stockholm). Unfortunately, ignited by lightning scepter both in 1664 and 1807 when even the bells were lost after being thrown down from the burning joists.
His current sprout from 1914-17, was designed by architect Axel Lindegren for an old model. The tower, 86 m high and 56 m above the top of the wall, covered with copper plates. The 13 m high takryttaren the east came even then.
The church bells are four in number, and named the large bell, which weighs in at 4.7 tons and was after the fire in 1807 its current figure of Eric Ericson Goethe in Falun. It has a deep ore fuller sound and behind her reflectively call one senses Johan Olof Wallin's pen:
"O man you for Today from my ashes entry
my one hundred oar voice was heard by your fathers,
who rest here in peace.
Come to the sanctuary of God to children
of the same areas!
Come learn wid their graph at öfva same virtues
and die in their faith. "
Between the time (weighing 2.5 tonnes and last omgjuten 1910),
Small bell (of the Stora Kopparberg bestowed, also called "Bergslag time" and sometimes the "ball Hastings clock" is cast in Domnarvets Ironworks 1952) and the youngest Holjans clock, which is cast in Bergholtz in Sigtuna in 1976 in memory of Holjans Fredrik Johansson, sexton 1893.1945 . The inscription on the bell reads:
"I was created by the rock ore
in honor of all the world God
Now I call to prayer and hymn
and sends the reverberant sound
to the children of earth a heavenly commandments. "
Date of origin:: 1469
Style: Renaissance (ca. 1400–1500)
Web site of the object (if exists): [Web Link]
Type of building (structure): Large religious building (church, monastery, synagogue...)
Architect(s): Not listed
Address: Not listed
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