Gustav Adollf Stave Church

Gustav Adolf Stave Church is basically a stave church. It is located in Hahnenklee, in the Harz region of Germany. The Harz is a mountain range in northern Germany. It is the northernmost mountain chain of Germany.

A stave church is a wooden church of medieval age. It has a post and beam construction related to timber framing. The load-bearing posts have added their name to the building technique. The majority of existing stave churches is found in Norway. In the architecture of stave churches you can find a combination of Christian designs intermixed with pre-Christian Viking motif.

Archaeological diggings have shown that today stave churches are best represented by the Borgund stave church. Even though all the stave churches had structural differences but they have a recognizable general impression. In the Gustav Adolf Stave Church also you can find some common features.

The Gustav Adolf Stave Church is replica of Borgund stave church. The construction of Gustav Adolf Stave Church began in 1907, and the church opened its doors for use on 1908-06-28.

Borgund stave church is a stave church located in Norway. The church was probably built in the end of the 12th century, and not had a major reconstruction since that date. The church site shows evidence of a previous building. The same is applicable to Gustav Adolf Stave Church also. The interior of the church is free from the post-Reformation decorations seen in most other stave churches. The Gustav Adolf Stave Church is a triple nave stave church. You can find several runic inscriptions on the walls of the church. Gustav Adolf Stave Church has cross braces joining upper and lower string beams and the posts, forming a very rigid interconnection.