Hornslet Church

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The Rosenkrantz family sepulchral church

By Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen , Lektor, dr. phil., Aarhus Universitet (26 stories)

Hornslet Church nave was built from natural fieldstone in the 1200s. In the late 1500s, the church was heavily extended by the nobleman Jørgen Rosenkrantz, with a new chancel to the east, a burial vault to the south and a Renaissance-style tower to the west. A battle-scene frieze and a font date from the church's earliest times. The stool", a single-seat pew next to the altar, bears the coats of arms of the families Rosenkrantz and Lange and was carved circa 1590 by the artist Mikkel van Groningen. The church contains an outstanding array of sepulchral monuments to the Rosenkrantz family. "

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House of the Lord (and the squire)

Story written by Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen

Time / Periode 1560 1600

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In the Middle Ages, noblemen were often interred in monasteries. After the Reformation, they turned to their parish churches. Jørgen Rosenkrantz, creator of Rosenholm Castle, brought the mortal remains and tombstones of numerous ancestors to Hornslet from the abolished monasteries, and erected monuments to four generations of his paternal ancestry in the chancel. By the south side of the chancel he built a burial vault containing no fewer than three monuments to his own personnage – an altarpiece portraying himself and family, a tombstone and an inscribed plaque. After him, Baroque monuments to honour his son and grandson bore painted portraits and ancestral coats of arms. Hornslet Church may be the house of the Lord, but the Rosenkrantz family is undeniably in residence.