Resmo Church
Resmo Church is one of Sweden's oldest churches. It was built around the year 1100. It has many archaic features and bears witness to important contacts with the southern Baltic Sea and Denmark
Preserved runestones tell of the family that had the contacts that made the church building possible.
The church is built with a nave, chancel and apse in thin shifts of limestone. The masonry technique is archaic and the walls stood for a long time without plaster. For finer details, sandstone and limestone tuff have been used. The limestone tuff must have been imported from Denmark. The lower part of the west tower was erected at the same time as the nave. Three portals; west, south and north, have led into the church. All with a strong oak log as relief for the masonry above. The nave has had four high windows on each side. They have been divided into two round-arched airs by a wooden latticework. To the east, a small round window previously led the gaze towards heaven. In the chancel and apse there are early medieval frescoes. Frescoes from the later Middle Ages and the 1600s can still be seen on the nave walls. At the beginning of the 13th century, an east tower was erected. The west tower was completed at the same time. The lowest meter of the east tower is still intact. Despite centuries of repairs and alterations – mainly larger windows, Resmo church still preserves the spatial mystique of the early medieval church space.
The church is built with a nave, chancel and apse in thin shifts of limestone. The masonry technique is archaic and the walls stood for a long time without plaster. For finer details, sandstone and limestone tuff have been used. The limestone tuff must have been imported from Denmark. The lower part of the west tower was erected at the same time as the nave. Three portals; west, south and north, have led into the church. All with a strong oak log as relief for the masonry above. The nave has had four high windows on each side. They have been divided into two round-arched airs by a wooden latticework. To the east, a small round window previously led the gaze towards heaven. In the chancel and apse there are early medieval frescoes. Frescoes from the later Middle Ages and the 1600s can still be seen on the nave walls. At the beginning of the 13th century, an east tower was erected. The west tower was completed at the same time. The lowest meter of the east tower is still intact. Despite centuries of repairs and alterations – mainly larger windows, Resmo church still preserves the spatial mystique of the early medieval church space.