October 31, 2025
Next summer we are going to a wedding in Gårdstånga Church. Today, for All Saints' Day, the church is open, so we drive there. It is the same as from our last visit. The faces looking down from a memorial plaque are a portrait of the dean Peder Sommer and his family, he was the vicar of Gårdstånga from 1594 to 1639. To the south outside the church is a ask burial and memorial garden with the cemetery's oldest gravestone. In the eastern part are graves of the Ramel family, who have owned the Viderup estate since the 17th century and who have a close connection to the church. After the wedding there will be a party in Ådala Lodge. We drive past the road between Gärdstånga and Södra Sandby where the lodge is located. From there you can see the church on the other side of the Kävlingeån.

December 4, 2011: "The Church" it says on a sign. I drive in to the church. It is built in the late 12th century, rebuilt and modified over the years. It is beautifully situated at the river Kävlingeån. It has just been service with baptism, and I get a short time to look into the church while they are shutting down after worship and the baptism. At the entrance hangs a painting, a variety of faces looking down at me. Begin by lighting a candle in the light carrier at the pulpit. The church has a stunning interior. Between 1609 and 1628 did the woodcarver Jakob Kremberg make reredos, pulpit, baptismal font with canopy, pews, organ gallery, and chapel railing. Absolutely gorgeous wood carvings. Colour and gilding were removed in the 19th century and thus they have today its oak colour. They were ordered by Anna Brahe in Viderups goods. At the choir is a chapel, which is separated by a railing. The railing is richly decorated with figures and with the trees of knowledge and of life. Anna Brahe's portrait and the headstone of her and her husband Steen Malthesen Sehested is in the chapel. Opposite is a gray-white graceful epitaph in memory of Sehested.

In the 19th century was the decoration paintings on the arches made. It's Christmas time, there are both a tree and nativity scene. They want to close the church so I leave the church. I walk around at the cemetery, past the memorial.

Gårdstånga church

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