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Melhus is the administrative centre of Melhus Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located in the lower Gauldalen valley, along the river Gaula, about 15 kilometres south of the city of Trondheim. The 2.93-square-kilometre village has a population (2024) of 7,224 and a population density of 2,466 inhabitants per square kilometre.
The village lies along the European route E06 highway as well as the Dovrebanen railway line. The railroad stops at the Melhus Station in the central part of the village. The historic Melhus Church is located about 1.5 kilometres south of Melhus in the village of Storsand.
Melhus is the largest urban area in the municipality, so it has a mall, many stores and businesses, restaurants, banks, a medical centre, a school, and the municipal government offices.
Melhus was the site of many important events during the Viking Age. It was the site of the Rimul farm in Melhus at which Jarl Haakon was killed by his slave, Tormod Kark. Jarlshola is the location in Melhus thought to have been the hiding place of Jarl Haakon and Tormod Kark on their last night before the infamous murder at Rimul.
The village, originally the parish, is named after the old Melhus farm, in Old Norse Meðalhúsar since the first Melhus Church was built there. The first element is meðal which means middle. The last element is the plural form of hús which means house. The farm is one part of a greater and older farm, which had the name Óðinssalr which means the salr (mead hall) of Odin.
Melhus Church, in Norwegian Melhus kirke, also known as the Gauldal Cathedral, is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Melhus Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
It is located in the village of Storsand, about 2 kilometres south of the village of Melhus. It is the church for the Melhus parish which is part of the Gauldal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The gray, stone church was built in a cruciform design in 1892 using plans drawn up by the architect Carl Julius Bergstrøm. The church seats about 500 people. The churchyard contains a cemetery.
The church contains a controversial oil painting, which has been thought to be a portrait of Petter Dass.
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1533, but the church was built much earlier. The first church in Melhus was a medieval stone church that was constructed in stages from about 1150 to 1190. Construction probably began shortly before the year 1150, and the chancel was probably completed around 1160. Based on stylistic features, the nave should have been completed around the year 1190. The church was originally dedicated to St. Andreas. It had a rectangular nave and a narrower, rectangular chancel with a lower roof line. There was a tall tower on the west end of the roof of the nave. There was also a small wooden entry porch on the west end of the church.
In 1589, there were five churches in the Melhus prestegjeld, more or less equivalent to a parish, and Melhus Church was the main one. The annex chapels were scattered about the parish. Two of the five were located in Leinstrand and Flå and the remaining two churches were in Hølonda.
In 1814, this church served as an election church, in Norwegian valgkirke. Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called electors who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet at Eidsvoll Manor later that year.
In 1889, a Royal Decree was issued which ordered that the old medieval Melhus Church be demolished. During this demolition in 1890, a perfectly preserved hatchet dating from about 1100 was discovered in a wall of the medieval church. This axe was identified as the country's only preserved tool for cutting stone, in Norwegia steinhuggerøks from that period, and it is now located in the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. The new church was designed by Carl Julius Bergstrøm. The new building was consecrate on 10 November 1892. It is a neo-Gothic cruciform church in stone with around 500 seats.
Although the old church was torn down, several architectural elements of the medieval building were saved and incorporated into the new building. Much woodwork from the old church was included in the newer one. The old portal was also reused in the new church. Apparently, a few artifacts from the old church were not moved to the new church, and instead ended up in other places. When Gerhard Schøning visited the old medieval church he noted this: At the southern side of the entrance to the choir, there is an epitaph that Karen and Anders Helkands have erected to their parents and children. When the medieval church was demolished in 1890, the epitaph was no longer there. Few people knew that the epitaph was hidden on Søndre Melhuus farm.
The newer church building has been carefully maintained for over one hundred years; it has had several renovations.
In 1999, Medieval runic inscriptions were discovered on the medieval portal. These inscriptions were professionally examined in 2001.
Melhus Church houses a collection of painted portraits, primarily of clergymen. The most well-known painting is one that has traditionally been considered to be a portrait of Petter Dass, a 17th-century Norwegian poet and hymn writer. The painting was thought to be the only existing portrait of the poet.
More information: Melhus Kommune
Melhus Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Melhus Municipality in Trøndelag county. It has sections for association football, team handball, volleyball, orienteering, Nordic skiing, weightlifting, and powerlifting. It was established on 28 February 1898.
The men's football team last played in the Second Division in 1996. The football teams of Melhus IL and Tiller IL started a cooperation after the 2012 season, and the team that was known as Melhus/Tiller in the 2013 season was promoted to the Second Division. Ahead of the 2014 season, the cooperation evolved into an own club which was named Rødde FK.
More information: Melhus Idrettslag
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