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Lännäs kyrka

Address
Lännäs 632, 715 93, Odensbacken
Municipality
Örebro Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Strängnäs

Lännäs kyrka is a parish church at Lännäs in Örebro Municipality, part of the Asker-Lännäs parish within the Diocese of Strängnäs. It is notable chiefly for its distinctive pink-washed walls and a medieval tower that survives from an earlier building.



The church stands on a ridge amid cultivated farmland in the transitional landscape between forest and plain. Its most striking feature is its colour: local tradition holds that leftover roof tiles were mixed into the render, giving the walls their unusual pink hue, though this remains a piece of local lore rather than a documented fact.

The present building dates largely from 1777, when a growing congregation required a larger church and the medieval structure was substantially rebuilt. The tower, however, was retained largely unchanged. It is thought to date from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, making it, along with fragments of the nave's west wall, the oldest surviving part of the church. The tower's stepped masonry is characteristic of the Romanesque period, although its sound openings and spire were altered in later centuries.

The rebuilt nave has a rectangular plan with a three-sided chancel typical of eighteenth-century church design, along with a sacristy to the north-east. Inside, the space has a Gustavian character, decorated in gold and white beneath a coved ceiling. The pulpit, reached from the sacristy, dates from the same 1777 rebuilding. The current altarpiece was added in 1892, but two earlier altarpieces, from the early and late eighteenth century respectively, are preserved on the nave's south wall.

Among the church's furnishings is one of Närke's two oldest bells, cast in the thirteenth century and predating the present building by several centuries. The organ was rebuilt in 1966 using the case and some pipework from an earlier 1845 instrument by Johan Samuel Strand.

Archaeological investigations near the church have reportedly uncovered remains of a Viking Age wooden stave church, said to be remarkably well preserved despite roughly a thousand years underground. A female skeleton was apparently found buried within the structure itself, a position traditionally reserved for high-status individuals, though the identity of this person and the full significance of the find remain unresolved and unverified by wider sourcing.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Parking
  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop
  • Accessible toilet

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Lännäs kyrka

Lännäs kyrka is a parish church at Lännäs in Örebro Municipality, part of the Asker-Lännäs parish within the Diocese of Strängnäs. It is notable chiefly for its distinctive pink-washed walls and a medieval tower that survives from an earlier building.

Lännäs 632, 715 93, Odensbacken

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Provider catalogue data: Svenska kyrkan, Platser, CC BY 4.0. Separately credited descriptions retain their stated source and licence terms. Catalogue and visiting data reformatted from the provider. The English guide combines and abridges separately credited sources below.

Provider record updated: 19 Oct 2023. This is not an independent verification date.

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