Hopperstad stavkirke

Hopperstad Stave Church / Stavkirke de Hopperstad (Norway/Norge)

(EN) Hopperstad Stave Church is a stave church, just outside the village of Vikøyri in Vik Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The church is currently owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments. The two old parishes of Hopperstad and Hove was abolished in 1875, and replaced by the new, united, Vik parish. The new Vik Church was finished in 1877, and the two middle age churches of Hopperstad and Hove have sice then been museum churches. Vik parish is a part of Indre Sogn deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.
The stave church is assumed to have been built around the year 1130 and still stands at its original location. In 1997, a series of samples from the logs were collected for dendrochronological dating of the church. A total of seven samples produced an estimate for the construction ranging from 1034 to 1116 and resulted in no definite conclusion. The only possible conclusion is that this is one of the oldest stave churches still standing.
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Hopperstad Stave Church, Vikoyri, Norway

Hopperstad Stave Church is located just outside Vikoyri, Norway. Thought to be build around 1130, is one of the oldest stave churches to still be standing in Norway today.

If you're in the area, it is well worth a visit to take in this magnificent part of Norwegian history.

Hopperstad Stave Church is a historic parish church and part of The Church of Norway. This beautiful stave church is located in Vik Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vikøyri. It was once the church for the Hopperstad parish in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The church is currently owned by the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments. The brown, wooden stave church was built during the 12th century. The church seats about 30 people.

The stave church is thought to have been built around the year 1130 and still stands at its original location. In 1997, a series of samples from the logs were collected for dendrochronological dating of the church. A total of seven samples produced an estimate for the construction ranging from 1034 to 1116 and resulted in no definite conclusion. The only possible conclusion is that this is one of the oldest stave churches still standing in Norway.

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Vikoyri Norway - A walk with views of Norway's longest fjord

Vikoyri is a small town in Norway. It's located close to the popular Hopperstad Stave Church and sits within the Sognefjorden, Norway's longest fjord. Enjoy this virtual walk through the town early in the morning as the sky clears to the start of a beautiful day.

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Norway - Kaupanger stavkirke (stave church)

Kaupanger in Sogn og Fjordane was built in 1137 and is one of the oldest stave churches. It has been rebuilt and enlarged and was even painted white like other churches in Norway a hundred years ago. However the medieval construction is intact and it is regarded as a well preserved church.

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Read more on the Sandalsand travel blog. This video is part of a series about stave churches in Norway.

In Norway from Bergen to Vik

Vikafjell into Vik i Sogn part 3

Driving down the mountain into Vik

Flytur langs Vikjaelva, Vik i Sogn

Flygetur langs med Vikjaelvi

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Norway - Sognefjord part 2

The Sognefjord is one of the longest and deepest fjord in the world. It is surrounded by mountains.

Vik i Sogn

Stave church

A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the buildings' structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing posts are called stafr in Old Norse and stav in modern Norwegian. Two related church building types also named for their structural elements, the post church and palisade church, are often also called 'stave churches'.
Originally much more widespread, most of the surviving stave churches are in Norway. The only remaining medieval stave churches outside Norway are those of circa 1500 at Hedared in Sweden and one Norwegian stave church relocated in 1842 to the outskirts of Krummhübel, Germany, now Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains of Poland. (One other church, the Anglo-Saxon Greensted Church in England, exhibits many similarities with a stave church but is generally considered a palisade church.)


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Norwegian Road Trip - Day 2 - Chasing Waterfalls

Full write up of our trip here:

Day 2 of our Norwegian road trip, from Stryn to Lofoten! Day 2 takes us across Sognefjorden from Balestrand... Passing through Voss and Flåm, eventually reaching and setting up camp near Aurlandsvangen.

Note: Day 1 of the road trip was not documented due to some turbo issues on our trusty steed, which kept our attention away from filming.

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