Gesten Kirke

Gesten Church is located on the western outskirts of the town of Gesten and has a beautiful view of the open country to the west. Special about the church is the newly built tower from 2014, which architecturally and color-wise matches the old church building in the most distinguished way.

Gesten Church is a well-preserved ashlar stone building from around the 1200s, where both the chancel and nave were later expanded. The parish was first mentioned in written sources in 1329. The porch in monk stone was added in the late Middle Ages and a classicist tower was added in 1897, and demolished again in 2014. The south door of the nave, which today is the entrance from the porch, consists of a portal that has a number of distinctive and rare details. In the porch there is a bricked-up fireplace.

Inside, Gesten Church is whitewashed, and most of the furnishings are from the Renaissance period. The pulpit with ornaments is from 1574, and presumably at the same time there are a number of pews. Altarpiece from about 1600, however, the paintings were made in 1904 by P. Møller, Kolding, and depict Christ in Emmaus. The altarpiece was sponsored by the sheriff Caspar Markdanner. However, the baptismal font dates from the church's origins and is made of reddish granite and has symbolic reliefs on the base, as well as a granite holy water vessel. Above the chancel arch hangs a 130 cm high chancel arch crucifix with Christ on the cross.

The cemetery is surrounded by old boulder dikes. To the west, this dike goes over a former burial mound and over the entrance portal to the cemetery, so you walk right through the mound to enter.

Archaeologically, coins from Erik Menved's time have been found during the renovation of the floor of the choir.

Outside opening hours, the gravedigger can be contacted if you want to see the church inside.