- " The old church of Pälkäne was build around the year 1500. The construction plan made by the parish included the church hall which is the biggest room in the church, on the north side of the church hall was the vestry and the weapons room and entrance on the south side. All of this was build during one or two summer seasons. The arching however, which was planned, never came true, because the reformation made by the Crown, spoiled the economy of the parish. Only the magnificent cross arch, which had eight divisions was build to the vestry which now has only slight traces left in the corner of the vestry. During the year 1506 the sculptures of St.Olavi and St.Lauri were acquired to the finished church."

- " In the west side closets of the church hall and below them, there's also visible traces of the original chalkstone paintings. The outside pulpet is located in the entrance and here the Parish minister or the representative of the Crown could talk to the people gathered outside of the church."

- " Around one hundred stone church buildings were build to the medieval Turku bishopric. Fourteen of them were build to Häme and another eight were never completely completed and only the vestry were build to those. Most of the churches in Häme were build between the years 1480 to 1550. Only the church in Hattula is older than the rest of them and according to the recent studies, it was build in the middle of the 15th century."

- " The church of Pälkäne got a bit too small and eventually during the early part of the 19th century, it started to fall into a decay. In the year 1839 the construction of the current church of Pälkäne was finished and the old one was abandoned. During the late 19th century, the archaeological hobby which had became popular, got interested about the church and the renovation work was started. The renovation work is still in progress because the climate damages the church constantly even more."

- " The church yard around the church, was originally surrounded by a log fence. It's size fits to the original size of the yard. The trees and bushes around the church, dates from the 19th century, because before that, the church yard was open. The wooden belfry was located in the south-east part of the yard, near the log fence. Also the memorial to Daniel Medelplan, who made the so-called wooden primer, is located in the yard."

- The exploration of this church ruins, was just an extra photograph opportunity, that came along while we were heading into the Locomotive Graveyard of Haapamäki. The church ruins is located right next to the main highway and my fiancé actually spotted this while driving...I guess I was looking at some other direction?

- However we headed first to Haapamäki and decided if we have enough time when we are heading home, we would stop and take a look of the church. While getting back to home in the evening, we stopped to the nearby restaurant to get something to eat and then headed towards the church. While looking at this place from the distance, it really didn't look that great. I thought that perhaps I get a few decent pictures, but no way I'm going to get enough pictures to make a own gallery of this church ruins.

- However, the superficial look can fool you. The place actually was a lot more exiting than I would have thought. This is an very old place (like you know if you read the introduction text above?) and keeps history inside, history that no modern factory can touch.

- Like the introduction text said, the church is in a bad shape and it's getting worse all the time. Actually the entrance to the church was blocked by a fence, but someone had moved it so that it was passable by people. However, one _must be very careful_ here as you can destroy something very valuable, that no money can get you. This picture is taken in one of the two towers which was ok to climb up, but the second tower (on the right side of the picture) is nearly collapsing and it has been supported by a metal bars and wires, so that the whole wall wouldn't collapse. The fence is a really good thing, because I can imagine some kids running around this place and eventually destroying the whole place to pieces. While we were here, one family got the non-existent parking place and in no time, the kids were running around the place and one of them got inside of the church, until the mother said that the fence is there for the reason, that people are not allowed to go inside. Very good, I only hope that the place is a bit more thoroughly guarded against people who perhaps don't mean any harm, but can accidental destroy something for good, even if it means that I also can't see the place more closely.