Trysil Church () is a

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of the

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Trysil Municipality Trysil is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Inn ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Innbygda Innbygda is the administrative centre of Trysil Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the river Trysilelva, about north of the village of Nybergsund. Trysil Church is located in the centre of the village. The vil ...

. It is the church for the Trysil

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which is part of the Sør-Østerdal prosti (

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1861 using plans drawn up by the

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Christian Heinrich Grosch. The church seats about 560 people.

History

The first church in Trysil was likely a wooden

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that may have been built in the 14th century. In 1563, the church was looted by the

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during the

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. The Swedes took all of the valuable, historic items in the church. In 1749, the old church was torn down. A new

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church was built on the same site, being completed in 1750. It was

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in 1750. In 1814, this church served as an

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(). Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814

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which wrote the

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. 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 at Eidsvoll Manor later that year. By the 1850s, the church was considered to be too small and in need of replacement. In 1855, Christian Heinrich Grosch submitted designs for the new church that would be built a few meters to the north of the old church. It was difficult to find a builder, but eventually they hired Thomas Aasen who had built the Vallset Church. During the summer of 1857, however, Aasen and his workers had great difficulty in getting the tower to stand straight, so the parish relieved him of his duty and gave the job to Ole Lysvig, who completed the half-finished church. The church was

on 7 July 1861. The old church was demolished the following year in 1862. Interestingly, there were problems with the structure of the tower about one year after the building was completed. The church was extensively restored in 1950.

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