soemand

I've only been in this church once, on a sad occasion, and didn't know it had been deconsecrated.

The combination of rural population loss, and lower religiosity the church wasn't right-sized for quite some time. It also dates from when travelling a few miles to church, often via horse drawn carriage, had a church in every village.

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