Øvre Rendal Church
History
The first church in Bergset was a wooden stave church that was likely built during the 13th century. Not much is known about that building. A 13th-century crucifix that formerly hung in that church is still in existence today. Around 1665, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new church on the same site. In 1759, the old church was torn down and a new church was built on the same site soon afterwards. It was a timber-framed cruciform church. The new church was consecrated on 19 July 1761.
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish 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 in Eidsvoll later that year.
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References
- ^ "Øvre Rendal kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "Øvre Rendal kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "Øvre Rendal kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "Valgkartet". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 4 December 2021.