Sundby church / Sundby kirke, Morsø Nørre herred, Thisted amt.

 

Sundby village

The church in Sundby on the island Mors has nave and choir  from the Romanesque period with a halfcircular apse and a newer porch to the south. A possibly late medieval tower was demolished in the 1700s. The Romanesque church is built in granite ashlars on a slant-plinth. Several ashlars are unusually large, until 2,5 meter long. The longwalls of the nave are rebuilt above the plinth in 1848 (southwall outside) and 1890 (southwall inside and the northern wall) . The Romanesque windows are kept in the apse and in the northern wall of the choir. In the western gable is a modern round-window with coloured glass. The apse has a halfcircular vault, the choir and nave a beamed ceiling. The apse was furnished as a sacristy in the Middle Ages and divided from the choir with a wall.  The porch is built in small bricks and whitewashed.

The walled communion table has a new panel. The altarpiece is an architectur-frame from 1893 with a Christ figure(after Thorvaldsen), made in kallipaste. A Romanesque sidealter-table in granite stands in the sacristy (apse). Chalice from 1656, the altarcandelabres were given by Lars Andersen 1624. A Romanesque granite font with archade-rows with human heads and other figures. A Renaissance pulpit from ab. 1610-20 ; with biblical paintings from 1669. Sounding board from 1857. Modern pews. In the nave a ship model. A bell without inscription from the 1400s, hangs in a peephole in the gable. At the church lies a Romanesque gravestone with a reliefcarved procession cross and a partly destroyed Latin majuskel-inscription: "Quisquis ades si morte .... des sta p(er) lege plora / Sum quod eris, quod es, ipse fui...s" (Whoever you are... stop, read, cry / I am what you will be, what you are, I was myself...).  

original table plate

Overgård was in 1502, 1504, 1507 and 1515 owned by væbner Peder Madsen, whose coat of arms was an arrow in the shield and a lily on the helmet. With his daughter Johanne, O. came to Johan Pors of the family Skadeland, who in 1540 and 1552 was written of O.  After this it belonged to their son Mads Pors and their son-in-law Niels Andersen Vinter (was + 1579), whose son Knud Nielsen Vinter of O. died in 1590. In 1592 is above mentioned Mads Pors said to be the heir after Knud Nielsen. However, O. is in 1568 supposed to  belong to Jytte Putbus (Podebusk), but was at that time inhabited by Anne Johansdatter Pors (the family Pors of Vrandrup), widow after Jørgen Skadeland and the mother of above mentioned Johan Pors (Skadeland).
She was written of O. in 1569, and the farm must have come back to the family Pors, for in 1662 it belonged to Mads Pors' son's daughter Inger Hansdatter Pors (Skadeland), but came in 1675 to Morten Thomsen, whose son, the priest in Kobberup, Chr. Mortensen Scheel (+ 1729) in 1692 sold O. to Jens Mulli in Thisted. In 1711 and 1728 it belonged to Peder Thøgersen, and after him to Jacob Winther (+ 1761), whose widow the same year put it on auction.
Later owners: ritmester Johan Glud; Niels Aars of Ullerup, Jakob Dahlgaard, Thomas Jepsen and  Peder Smedgaard; the family Overgaard from ab. 1882. In 1924 Ingvard M. Overgaard; his widow owned O. in 1961.

Fårtoft was earlier a main farm. In 1418 the væbner Per Nielsen of Fortoft is mentioned as the owner,  in 1424-42 Anders Pedersen, in 1470 Morten Andersen, in 1483 Anders Mortensen, all probably sons following after father. The last mentioned's brother Bod Mortensen gave his share of F. to bishop Niels Friis. The parish priest in Vestervig had ownership in the farm since old times, since a certain Mikkel Ibsen in 1450 had committed to sell F. only to him, and Otte Andersen (probably a brother of Morten Andersen) conveyed in 1463-83 his part of F. to the mentioned parish priest, but also wrote himself of F.still in 1493. In 1662 Fårtoftgård belonged to mayor Jakob Madsen's heirs,  to whom it had been laid out by the estate of Vestervig kloster. It came back to the Crown, which in 1716 conveyed it to Rasmus Jørgensen in Nykøbing.

Klitgård was in 1480 and 1488 bought by the parish priest in Vestervig; in 1580 Mads Pors (from the family Skadeland) wrote himself of K., which his son's daughter Inger Hansdatter Pors in 1648 had to lay out because of debt.

Listed prehistorics: 4 hills, of which one is rather large but somewhat outdigged.

Destroyed or demolished: 34 hills; 5 were on a high site at Vilsund færgegård (ferry) At Vilsund is noted a settlement from Ertebøllekulturen.

Names from the Middle Ages and 1600s:

Sundby (1408 Swndby) ; Fårtoft (1418 Fortofft); Overgård (1502 Offuergard); Bækhøj (1664 Bechhøy); Sundbygård (1504 Swndbygord).

Source: Trap Danmark 1961.

photo June 2011: grethe bachmann

Hvam church / Hvam kirke, Rinds herred, Viborg amt.

Hvam Church, 19 km east of Hobro.
Hvam sogn, Rinds herred, Viborg amt.

The church has a Romanesque choir and nave with a late Gothic tower to the west and a porch from the end of the 1800s to the south . The Romanesque building is in granite ashlars and has kept both the original doors, the south door is in use, while the walled-in north door has a relief-carved processions-cross on the cover stone. The choir arch has no kragsten, but it was probably extended. The choir and nave have beamed ceilings. The late Gothic tower is built in re-used ashlars and monk bricks and the porch in bricks . In a main-restoration 1934-35 were inserted new windows .

The altar piece is a painting by Niels Larsen-Stevns from 1920, given by direktør Aarup. The old Renaissance altar piece hangs upon the wall in the church. Late Gothic ore-candelabres upon little lion-figures. A small Romanesquq granite font, with a flat, smooth basin. A pulpit from the end of he 1800s. A church bell re-cast 1897 , repeating the insription from 1559. A church ship, 5 master bark, from 1928. Gravestone with portraits of Niels Harbou of Restrup, (+ 1560) and Birete Munck.


North door


Simested Å

Names in the Middle Ages and 1600s:
Hvam (1344 Hwamæ); Tulstrup (1478 Tvlstrop); Lille Restrup (* 1454 Restrup, 1460 Ræstrvpp); Kallestrup (1544 Kollestrop, 1664 Kallestrup).

There were once several farms in Restrup, and their ownerships are complicated and uncertain. A farm in Restrup belonged to Albert Skeel of Hegnet; he pawned it to væbner Niels Pedersen in Ågård , who in 1460 is written of Restrup, and still in 1484 lived on the farm. His daughter Johanne married Jens Nielsen Munk (Vinranke-M.), who took over the pawn and is written to R. in 1492-1504. In 1511 Albert Skeel's children sold R. etc. to landsdommer Niels Clemensen of Aunsbjerg.

Another farm in Restrup belonged in the middle of the 1400s to the brothers Niels and Las Skadeland. The last mentioned son's son Laurids Skadeland owned the farm later; his daughter married probably Jens Harbou, who in 1507 is written to R. ; and his widow Marine Nielsdatter sold together with her son Niels Skadeland in 1408 her part in R. to Niels Clemensen of Aunsbjerg. At his fall in in 1518 and following death R. went to the Crown.

In 1519 Chr. II gave a farm in Restrup and 16 other farms to Niels Clemensen's widow Anne Mikkelsdatter. The daughter Kirsten Nielsdatter brought before 1526 Restrup to her husband Christen Harbou (+ 1556). His son Niels Harbou died in 1560, but the widow married Iver Grøn, who in 1564 and 1587 is written to R. Another son Jørgen Harbou (+ after 1593), his son Otte Harbou and his son Niels Harbou (+ 1649) owned also R. The last mentioned sold in 1633 his part to Jesper Lunov. Various owners: Lunov, Juel, Sparre-Kaas, Bille etc. In the entrance-room in the main building is a stone with the coat of arms of Sparre-Kaas.

Kallestrup was in 1545 under Hald and was occupied by Las and Michel andersen, in 1603 by Poul Lauritzen; it was together with Hald in 1664 sold to the brothers de Lima.

Østergård (1664 Østergaaard) in Hvam was a nobleman's estate. It was probably owned by Jørgen Harbou of Restrup and was divided between his sons Otte and Niels Harbou. Christen Harbou is written to it in 1595; Otte Harbou's children Niels (+ 1649) and Christen (is mentioned in 1632 and 1654) had part in it, the first mentioned Niels Harbou's widow Mette Munk (Vinranke-M.) (+ 1672) still owned part in Ø. in 1671 , but her children Enevold, Peder and Christen Harbou had already got part in the farm at their father's death. Østergård's later name: Frydenlund.

Tulstrup was in 1502 by hr. Predbjørn Podebusk conveyed to Jens Harbou, who in 1505 sold it to bishop Niels Friis.

Listed prehistorics: At the vicarage's field a two-chambered long dolmen with twenty edge stones; furthermore 20 hills.
Demolished or destroyed: 3 long dolmens, to undefinable stone cists and 38 hills.

Source: Trap Danmark, Viborg amt, 1962.


photo Hvam kirke & Simested Å 2003/ 2008: grethe bachmann