Edestad Church

Description

Edestad church was probably built in the 1200s and it was a popular pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages due the adjacent 'holy' spring. The cruficix dates from the 1300s and the pulpit from 1600s. The Rococo style altarpiece was painted in 1763.

Address
Edestadsvägen 40, Ronneby, Sweden

Established
13th century

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