Kongsberg Church

Kongsberg Church is a church placed at Kongsberg in Buskerud county, Norway. Kongsberg Church is a huge baroque church. It has a simple outside with a richly decorated roccoco indoors. Kongsberg Church changed into constructed of brick and designed with a cruciform ground plan. The design of the church become inspired with the aid of Garnisons Church in Copenhagen. Virtually all furniture in the church are of wooden, however pillars and surfaces had been marbled.

The complete church has a groovy blue colour as a result. On both side of the altar and pulpit are the pillars that undergo the organ gallery above. The Baroque organ is from 1765 and made through organ builder Gottfried Heinrich Gloger. In the 1850s it became restored by means of Paul Brantzeg and in 1932 via Josef Hilmar Jorgensen. In 1928, Tinius Olsen gave a chief donation to the restoration of the organ which changed into water damage within the past due Eighties.

The baptismal font changed into carved out of marble extracted from Holmestrand in Vestfold. The chandeliers had been produced at Nostetangen glassverk in Hokksund in the course of the second one half of the 1700s. The church was designed by means of Joachim Andreas Stukenbrock and the construction length lasted from 1740 to 1761. The sanctuary consists of ceiling decorations by way of Eric Gustav Tunmarck. Among the driving forces behind the ornament and indoors of the church changed into mining engineer Michael Heltzen.