Karise

Karise is the main city of Karise Parish in Faxe Municipality, Region Sjælland within the southeast of Denmark. Karise city has a populace of 2,168. Karise is cited in 1261, while Peder Olufsen, a local Lord, in his will donated 12 marks to the consecration of Karise Church. Until the municipal reform of 1972, Karise was part of its personal Karise Municipality. The church is constructed as a fortified church which served as an area of refuge at some stage in wendish incursions inside the thirteenth century. At that time the circulation on the east facet of the church become a navigable fjord, rendering the surrounding villages an easy goal for the wendish pirates.

The architecture of the church presentations both romanesque and gothic style features. The windows within the apse are romanesque spherical arches even as the windows in the nave are gothic pointed arches. The double feature of the church as both of a castle and a church can be visible inside the uncommon design of getting two church towers. One of the towers has later been decreased to provide the church a extra conventional Danish church appearance. The larger tower also nonetheless have archer holes.