Stave churches in Norway

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Borgund Stave Church, Eidsborg Stave Church, Fantoft Stave Church, Fåvang stave church, Flesberg stave church, Garmo stave church, Gol Stave Church, Grip Stave Church, Haltdalen Stave Church, Hedal Stave Church, Heddal stave church, Hegge stave church, Hopperstad Stave Church, Hylestad stave church, Høre stave church, Høyjord stave church, Kaupanger Stave Church, Kvernes Stave Church, Lomen stave church, Lom Stave Church, Nore Stave Church, Reinli Stave Church, Ringebu Stave Church, Rollag Stave Church, Rødven Stave Church, Røldal stave church, Torpo stave church, Undredal Stave Church, Urnes Stave Church, Uvdal Stave Church, Vågå Church, Øye stave church. Excerpt: Vang stave church (Polish: ; Norwegian: ; German: ) is a stave church which was bought by the Prussian King and transferred from Vang in Norway and re-erected in 1842 in Brückenberg near Krummhübel in Germany, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland. The church is a four-post single-nave stave church originally built around 1200 in the parish of Vang in the Valdres region of Norway. Drawing of the stave church from 1841 by F.W. Schiertz Original location of Vang stave churchIn 1832, the local council decided to pull down the stave church because it was too small and had become structurally unsafe over the years. The plans for its demolition and replacement were known already in 1826, when the painter Johan Christian Dahl made the first attempt to save it. He urged the council to repair and extend it. There was also an attempt to have it re-erected at Heensåsen in the same parish as an annex church. Knut Nordsveen, a local farmer, offered to donate the building site to the community, but his offer was rejected. Disappointed by the rebuff, he later sold his farm and emigrated to America. In 1932, a monument was erected in memory of him. While traveling in Norway in 1839, J. C. Dahl again visited Vang. He found the stave church still standing, beside a newly built larger log-built church seating 230 parishioners. Demolition of the old one was imminent. Dahl was more than ever convinced that the stave church must be preserved as a cultural monument. He proposed without success to have it re-erected as a Royal Chapel in Christiania, or as a museum church adjacent to the medieval Haakon's Hall in Bergen. Count Herman Wedel Jarlsberg announced his willingness to place it in his park at Bogstad manor near Christiania, but he died before the plan could be carried out. Dahl saw no other way than to buy the church himself. He asked the vicar of Vang to bid on his behalf at the public auction held in January 1841. Dahl won the bid at 86 speciedaler, 1 ort and 7 skilli