HAMMEL KIRKE

3496 GJERN HERRED
Fig. 73. Hammel 1799 og 1987, 1:10000. T.v. matrikelkort med ændringer indtil 1857, kopieret af Birgitte
Andreasen 1982. T.h. samme område, kommunalt kort, kopieret af KdeFL. - Map of the village 1799 and 1987.
ned about 1600, and a sepulchral chapel added in
1737. A thoroughly comprehensive restoration
took place during the 1860s, concluding with
virtually the total rebuilding of the tower in
1881-82.
Hammel Church, as the parish church of Frijsenborg,
was subject to the efforts of the church
patrons to maintain and modernize it to a higher
degree than the other churches belonging to the
Frijsenborg estate. Among other things this meant
that a fairly extensive exchange of furnishings
and fittings occurred between the different
churches. When the altar-piece with J. L. Lund's
painting was acquired for Hammel in 1849, the
altar-piece it replaced was transferred to Voldby.
The font was discarded in favour of a new one
designed by Hans I. Holm in 1898, partly modelled
on the font in Uth, the baroque canopy of
which was transferred to Hammel. A 1680s wall
monument from the church in Gjern was remodelled
for Hammel in 1890 to become a board
listing the names of the incumbents.
Among the modest furnishings of the church,
marked particularly by the changes made in the
1890s, can be mentioned the manorial pews,
whose reconstructed bench-end tops are adorned
with the coats of arms of the former church
owner, Valdemar Parsberg of Jernit. He and his
family are also commemorated by a wall monument
from 1610, the work of the wood-carver
Mikkel van Groningen, with a portrait painting
by Laurits Andersen Riber; and likewise by a
splendid tombstone from the beginning of the
Uth century executed by an Århus workshop.
The most striking feature of the interior is the
large pulpit from 1694 in the so-called acanthus
baroque style, probably made by the workshop
of Christian Nerger, the sculptor. A chandelier
from 1771 comes from the tchapel in Frijsenborg
Manor. The sepulchral chapel of the Frijsenborg
in Hammel Church contains eight large marble
coffins, several of which are by the hand of
C. F. Stanley, and one more recent coffin of
wood.