Hørby Church

Not far from Hobro you will find Hørby Church, a charming village church, built in the 1200th century.

Hørby Church dates from around 1200 and is built of solid ashlar on a sloping plinth.

It consists of a Romanesque choir and nave and a late Gothic tower (1400th century) and a porch from the 1800th century. During the most recent restoration in 1981/82, the National Museum's staff searched for any traces of an older wooden church. Post holes from the construction of the church were uncovered, as well as excavations that were clearly older than the stone church and thus testify to earlier activity on the site before the church was built.

The altarpiece was made by the painter Rudolf Rud-Petersen in connection with a major restoration of the church in 1950. Rudolf Rud-Petersen was a student of Zartmann and a long-time employee of Joakim Skovgaard. The altarpiece is a truly evangelical, unsentimental work of art, inspired by the Christmas Gospel in Luke. 2,1-20 with the birth of Christ and the worship of the shepherds.

Hørby Church has a beautiful and richly decorated altarpiece. During Skipper Klement's feud in 1534, the altar silver had obviously been stolen, and the chieftain at Aalborghus, Ove Lunge, who in addition to Odden estate in Vendsyssel also counted Hørby Kirke as his possessions, found it too tacky with only a lead chalice and then paid for a new one of silver.

The pulpit is a neat piece of joinery from around 1625 with its "Ionic" corner columns, arcade fields, angels and lions. The baptismal font is a very beautiful and powerful piece of stonework from Romanesque times, when baptism took place by immersion. At the bottom you can see the drainage hole where the water is led down into the consecrated ground under the church. On the sides are a pair of characteristic double lions: two bodies share one head with an unusually long tongue.

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