Lading church / Lading kirke, Sabro herred, Århus amt.

foto: stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk

The church is completely changed after a restoration in  1861. It was originally a church with Romanesque choir and nave with a late Romanesque western extension. In the restoration the choir was rebuilt and had a new vault, the longwalls of the nave were enheightened with a bricked cornice, windows were inserted and a high porch and a small narrow tower were built in red bricks. The Romanesque nave and the western extension are built in granite ashlars on a bevel plinth, the western gable of the nave in monk bricks and field stone is visible at the attic. To the north is the rectangular door and an original window kept as glares outside and inside. To the south are traces after two large round arched  windows. The south door was destroyed in the built of the porch, and a tympanum from this has disappeared. The original choir arch is in granite ashlars upon a bevel plinth and with profiled kragbånd. A flatcurved door, now bricked-up, in the north wall of the western extension shows that above the western extension was once a tower.  In the choir vault copies of the frescoes of the district.

lapidarium

Altarpiece in Renaissance, with a canopy cornice, from ab. 1600, with three paintings upon canvas. Renaissance-decorated in 1909. Altar chalice, given in 1763 by farmer Johan Georg Wacker and wife, Anna Pedersdatter Hougaard, residing in Skjoldelev, made by Niels Christensen Brasch, Mariager. Renaissance altar candelabres. Romanesque granite font with a smooth basin and a small decoration. Brass baptismal dish 1887, stamped A. Wilson, Århus. A baptismal jar in pewter ab. 1850, not in use. A pulpit in rural  late Renaissance, with female hermes upon the corners and with a contemporary sounding board, from 1650. Restored 1898, decorated 1909. Earlier was an entrance through the triumph wall. New pews. A series pastorum from 1925. Chandeliers from 1897; west gallery and organ given in 1898. A bell from 1898 cast by S. Frichs, Århus. The previous bell from 1864 by Stallknecht. In the north wall of the choir a large, worn-out gravestone from ab. 1630. Another 1600s stone with relief of a soap bubble blowing putto, inserted in the east wall of the porch. 

Lyngballegård

Some estate in Lading mark was owned by Tyge Degn, but was inherited by Tord Turesen, who in 1301 conveyed it to Broder Degn, canon in Århus. He bought in 1323 all Torkild Dyring's estate in Lyngballe and before 1326 "det gl. gårdsted" (the old farm)  Ågård. In 1327 he conveyed the mentioned estate and estate in Fajstrup and Bruseltorp, bought at Peder Ebbesen's death, to the chapter in Århus.
Lyngballegård was owned by the chapter in Århus, but in 1584 the Crown exchanged it to Hans Rostrup of Sjelleskovgård, who lived still in 1611. In 1613 it belonged to Laurids Friis (of Vadskærgård)( + 1619), whose widow Bodil Kruse probably sold it to Laurids Ebbesen (Udsen), who 1625 gave Otte Kruse a deed in Ristrup, L. and Perstrup, but who in 1627 pawned Ristrup and L. etc. to Christoffer Gersdorff and in 1632 conveyed both farms to grev Valdemar Christian; he endowed L. to the noble jomfru Alhed Pol (is mentioned in 1637 and 1641), and exchanged in 1646 both farms to the Crown, who in 1650 exchanged them to hofjægermester Caspar Christoffer Gersdorff (+ 1658), who in 1653 sold L. to hr. Oluf Parsberg of Jernit. In 1667 it was inhabited by løjtnant Mourids Ernst von Rønne. It was one of the farms from which Mogens Friis established the grevskabet Frijsenborg in 1672.  After the grevskab was abandoned L.was sold in 1923 to løjtnant Troels Ravn, who in 1926 sold it to his brother-in-law J. Bech-Jensen (+ 1952), whose 4 children owned it in 1963.

The farm Hummelure was by Anna Stigsdatter (Stygge ?) conveyed in 1531 to hr. Mogens Gøye.

Skjoldelevgård, from ab. 1875, was in 1946 owned by A. Nielsen.

In Skjoldelev was a church mentioned in 1524,  and "Skioldeløsse Sogenn" in Sabro is mentioned in 1531.  Shortly after the church was probably demolished and the parish was added to Lading, which together with Sabro and Fårup parish did form a one pastorat, whose priest resided in Skjoldelev vicarage, which was used until 1910.  In an excavation was the site of the church in 1926 located southwest of the earlier vicarage and north of the kirkeledshus (church barn). There is nothing to see in the terrain from the demolished church.

At the driving entrance of Lyngballegård stand two and on the road from Sæding to Lading Hede one vildtbanesten with inscription and the year 1756. (vildtbanesten were stones used as border marks in the king's hunt)

There are no listed prehistorics in the parish, but there were two hills, the large Skjoldhøj and a smaller hill, both at Skjoldelev.

Names in the Middle Ages: Lading (1301 Ladhinghmark, 1317 Ladhingh); Fajstrup (1327 Fadistorp, 1426 Faddistorp); Skjoldelev (1386 Skwldeløf, 1485 Skioldhersleff); Hummelure (1453 Hommelum, 1485 Homelwor); Lyngballegård (1323 Lywngbalugh). 

Source: Trap Danmark, Århus amt, 1963.

Skivholme church / Skivholmd kirke, Framlev herred, Århus amt.

foto: stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk

The church in Skivholme has a nave and choir with apse, a tower to the west and a porch to the south. The nave and choir are from the Romanesque period and without any special plinth. It is built in raw, cleaved granite boulder and travertine. The walls of the choir were later enheightend with bricks. An original apse was broken down in 1801. The Romanesque north windows, 3 in the nave and 1 in the choir,are all in use. Besides are in the southside of the choir and in the north side two low placed circle glares, which possibly are bricked-up light openings. One of the round arched doors is bricked-up. The vaguely pointed choir arch is possibly contemporary with the built of the strange late Romanesque choir vault with profiled ribs and a hanging mushroom-shaped keystone, which is known from Øm kloster. The 3 cross vaults of the nave are late medieval. The tower has a pyramid roof, it is a late medieval monk brick building, new after a re-wall in 1898-99, when the church was restored. The vaulted tower room is connected to the nave in a pointed arch. The porch with a glare gable is also a late Gothic monk brick building. In the mentioned restoration was built a new apse in red monk bricks upon the old foundation. Choir, nave and porch are white-washed. The roofs have slates, except the apse, which is roofed with lead. The nave had frescoes already before the building of the vaults, traces are seen on the north wall above the vaults. Upon the vaults of the choir and the nave were in 1896 found interesting frescoes. Upon the choir vault were the coat of arms of  Jens Iversen Lange and Niels Clausen Skade and the mark and year 1503 of the chapter. Upon the vaults of the nave are partly biblical, partly symbolic pictures and a display of various saints (Sct. Clemens, Sct. Knud Hertug (Knud Lavard) and Sct Oluf).

foto: stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk

The altarpiece is a painting in neo Gothic frame, probably like the oakwood communion table from the restoration 1898-99. Altar candelabres in ore from the 1500s. Altar chalice from 1889. The granite font is of newer date. The pulpit and sounding board in Renaissance style from ab. 1600 with the name of the dean Niels Lauridsen Hase, now without decoration. New pewts. In the tower room an early Gothic Madonna figure from ab. 1300. The bell is cast by Borchard Gelgieser 1613. Parts of a carved epitaph in bruskbarok from 1676 is now used as series pastorum.  In the porch a worn-out gravestone with Rococo decoration.

Erik, a son of hr. Niels Bæger, conveyed in 1305 his estate in Bøstholm and Brinne to Broder Degn, canon in Århus. He had in 1311 from archbishop Esger Juul conveyed estate in Troldrup mark, which Niels Bise had pawned to hr. Esger; in an exchange Broder Degn bought the same year Jens Assersen's and Asser Jonsen's estate in Brinne and Grimskær, and he had in 1314 conveyed hr. Niels Kurv's farm in Brinne and bought 1319 a farm with mill in Troldrup, which Palle Jensen of Støvring had inherited from his father-in-law hr. Niels Lænde.  In 1321 Broder Degn gave his farm in Grimskær and Holme mill to Århus chapter.  - Erik Nielsen (Bæger) of Bøstholm is mentioned in 1304, Jens Assersen of Grimskær in 1311.

The parish was in the Middle Ages called Skyde (1304 Skydhæ). Several villages in the parish have disappeared: Troldrup (1311 Throldorpmark), which possibly was placed at the castle bank Troldhøj. Bøgestedholm (1304 Bøstæholm, Bøstholm, 1305 Bøkistatholm) at Terp, Grimskær southeast of Skivholme skov and Brinne (1305 Brinne mark). 

At the southwestern corner of Lading sø (lake) lies a medieval castle bank Troldhøj, Trolleborg or Trollerupgård, mentioned in the 1300s as Troltorp. The bank consists of an almost circular castle bank ab. 11m diameter on the top and ab. 3 m high. The moats which are open down to the lake are digged into the cliff. They were once water-filled. To the south is a large almost rectangular flat area surrounded by moats, probably the site of the farm building. Here are found pieces of monk bricks and stone foundations, probably house remnants.
Close east of this seems to have been a water mill, where there are traces in form of down-driven poles. The mill got water from a diked pond to the south.


There are no listed prehistorics in the parish, but there were 13 hills, of which 6 formed a group east of Herskind. According to an old report were also some large stone graves, which placement is not known.

Names in the Middle Ages: Skivholme (1335 Holmæ in parochia Skydhæ, 1508 Hollom Mark); Herskind (1506 Hierslundt, 1544 Herskyndt); Terp (ab. 1200 Thorp); Grimskærgård (1311 Grynskiær, 1495 Grimskier). 

Source: Trap Danmark, Århus amt, 1963.  

photo 25. February 2012: grethe bachmann and stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk