Malexander Church () is a stone church, opened in 1881, located in the minor village

Malexander Malexander is a small village in Boxholm Municipality, Sweden, about southwest of Linköping and southeast of Boxholm. It is located close to the lake Sommen and has a jetty where the steamboat A steamboat is a boat that is marine propuls ...

in Boxholm Municipality,

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History

There seems to be a church in Malexander already in the 13th Century. The 1st known information about a church is from 1345 when

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's uncle Knut Jonsson, who owned the

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'' Aspenäs'', willed money to the church and the priest Lambertus. This church, which was built of

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, burnt in 1587 and a new wood church was built. Perhaps the

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wasn't damaged in the fire. In the 19th century there were so many people that the church was not enough. In 1877 they started building a new stone church exactly south of the wood church. In 1881 the stone church was finished and the next year the old wood church was

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, but they photographed it before the demolition. In 1929 the stone church burnt, but was rebuilt and opened in 1931.

References

External links

Malexander Church on www.malexander.se
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