#Garmo Stave Church

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Lillehammer - An Ideal Getaway

by Deirdre Frost   In so many ways, Lillehammer is a favorite destination for Norwegians and for those with a passion for outdoor sports. Popular with tourists is the exhilarating luge ride down the Olympic-grade toboggan track. Other exciting activities are visiting the ski jumping arena or bobsledding and cross-country skiing in the Olympic Park. The Olympics torch bearer is visible from the…

[thewaynorth-trilogy]

Dragon’s head finial at Garmo stave church; Maihaugen; Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway

[rachaelrice]

#SAMHAIN MOOD: STAVE CHURCHES OF SCANDINAVIA⁣ ⁣ Hundreds of these all-wooden, sometimes tar covered churches existed a thousand years ago all over Scandinavia. The best surviving examples are in Norway.⁣ ⁣ Via Wikipedia:⁣ ⁣ "Stave churches appear to sometimes to have built upon or used materials from old pagan worship sites and are considered to be the best evidence for the existence of Norse Pagan temples and the best guide as to what they looked like. ⁣ ⁣ "The layout of the churches is believed to have mimicked old pagan temples in design and was possibly designed in order to adhere to old Norse cosmological beliefs, especially as some churches were built around a central point like a world tree. ⁣ ⁣ "Stave churches were also often located near or in the sight of large natural formations which also had a significant role in Norse Paganism, thus also suggesting a form of continuity through placement and symbolism."⁣ ⁣ VIa "The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia":⁣ ⁣ "For a long time the only known example of open-air sanctuaries of the cultic landscape come from the island of Frösö in Sweden, where excavations in the mid 1980's under the floor of the medieval church uncovered the remains of what appears to be a Viking-Age sacrificial grove.⁣ ⁣ Directly under the site of the medieval altar was found the badly-decayed remains of a birch tree, with a trunk approx. .5m in diameter. The tree had clearly been deliberately felled. Spread over an area of 9m2 around the stump was a very large assemblage of animal bones, which on statigraphic grounds could be seen to have accumulated while the tree was still standing." ⁣ ⁣ 1. Borgund Stave Church, Norway via @wanderlustmag⁣ ⁣ 2. Heddal Stave Church, Norway via @galdrarunir⁣ ⁣ 3. Fantoft Stave Church, Norway via @little_norway88⁣ ⁣ 4. Hopperstad Stave Church, Norway via thebestinphotography.tumblr.com⁣ ⁣ 5. Borgund Stave Church, Norway, vintage photo⁣ ⁣ 6. Skyrim Stave Church, Norway via @jamesslock⁣ ⁣ 7. Garmo Stave Church, Norway via northernvikinggirl.tumblr.com⁣ ⁣ 8. Borgund Stave Church, Norway via @__maena_⁣ ⁣ 9. Gol Stave Church, Norway via @theravenfromthenorth ⁣ ⁣ 10. Ringebu Stave Church, No https://www.instagram.com/p/B4S7OlWAZX_/?igshid=dsaajeaq4c2

[albografi]

Double ♥ tap if you would spend Fall season in this house with your lovely ones. 😊🍁 🏡 👪 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ The Boynton Chapel is a small wooden chapel built in a late 12th-century Norwegian stave church (Stavkirke) style. Handcrafted by Winifred and Donald Boynton between 1939 and 1947 on the grounds of their summer residence, the chapel is modeled after the Garmo stave church at Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway. And it’s not the only Stavkirke style chapel in Door County👀. #RoamWisconsin⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ⠀ Today's Quote 🈁 ⠀ ⠀ "Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you." Unknown ⠀ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ➖ ⠀ ⠀ Tag #albotravel to be featured 💯 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Follow ⏩@albotravel⏪ for more 🍁⠀ Follow ⏩@albotravel⏪ for more 🍁⠀ Follow ⏩@albotravel⏪ for more 🍁 ⠀ ⠀ Credits 📷 @deftony83⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Turn post notifications on 🔔 ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #doorcounty #fallinwisconsin #chapel #droneglobe #fromwhereidrone #wisconsin #fallcolor #gramslayers #winteriscoming #boyntonchapel #baileysharbor #optoutside #roamtheplanet #travelbook #igtravel #autumncolors🍁 #travel_captures #instatraveling #traveleurope #autumnday #ilovetravel #autumn🍁🍂 #instatravel #solotravel #autumnvibes🍁 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4GZJIjBRvO/?igshid=1go4iesekt2j3

[northernvikinggirl]

Some of the norwegian stave churces located in: Heddal Eidsborg Urnes Hopperstad Øye Ringebu Garmo Rødven Røldal Gol I love stave churches!

[serenitysally]

Wood Church, Norway 11 by zwzzjim Via Flickr: A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts are called stafr in Old Norse (stav in modern Norwegian). Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often called 'stave churches'. Originally much more widespread, most of the surviving stave churches are in Norway. The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are those of circa 1500 at Hedared in Sweden and one Norwegian stave church relocated in 1842 to the outskirts of Krummhübel, Germany, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland. (One other church, the Anglo-Saxon Greensted Church in England, exhibits many similarities with a stave church but is generally considered a palisade church.) At the base of Type A churches, there are four heavy sill beams on a low foundation of stones. These are interconnected in the corner notch, forming a rigid sill frame. The corner posts or staves (stavene in Norwegian) are cross-cut at the lower end and fit over the corner notches and cover them, protecting them from moisture. On top of the sill beam is a groove into which the lower ends of the wall planks (veggtilene) fit. The last wall plank is wedge-shaped and rammed into place. When the wall is filled in with planks, the frame is completed by a wall plate (stavlægje) with a groove on the bottom, holding the top ends of the wall planks. The whole structure consists of frames—a sill frame resting on the stone foundation, and the four wall frames made up of sills, corner posts and wall plate. The wall plates support the roof trusses, consisting of a pair of principal rafters and an additional pair of intersecting "scissor rafters". For lateral bracing, additional wooden brackets (bueknær) are inserted between the rafters. Every piece is locked into position by other pieces, making for a very rigid construction; yet all points otherwise susceptible to the harsh weather are covered. The single nave church has a square nave and a narrower square choir. This type of stave church was common at the beginning of the 12th century. The long church, (Langkyrkje), has a rectangular plan with nave and choir of the same width. The nave will usually take up two-thirds of the whole length. This type was common at the end of the 13th century. The center post church, (Midtmastkyrkje) has a single central post reaching all the way up to and connected to the roof construction. But the roof is a simple hipped one, without the raised central part of the Type B churches. This variation on the common type of church, found in Numedal and Hallingdal, dates to around 1200. Single nave churches in Norway: Grip, Haltdalen, Undredal, Hedal, Reinli, Eidsborg, Rollag, Uvdal, Nore, Høyjord, Røldal and Garmo. The only remaining similar church in Sweden, in Hedared, is of this type and shows similarities with the one from Haltdalen. from Wikipedia

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this is the door of the Boynton Chapel in Door County, Wisconsin. It is a small wooden chapel built in a late 12th-century Norwegian stave church (Stavkirke) style. Handcrafted by Winifred and Donald Boynton between 1939 and 1947 on the grounds of their summer residence, the chapel is modeled after the Garmo stave church at Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway. It is a door of Door County ;D . . . . . #doorcounty #doorcountywi #doorcountywisconsin #doorcountyusa #doorcountylife #doorcountyphotographer #doorcountylove #travelwisconsin #wisconsin #wisconsinphotographer #door #Doors #doorway #doorsofinstagram #norwegen #wood #wooddoors #stavkirkechurch #stavkirke #stavechurch #stavechurches