Nordby Church

In early Middel age a church were situated at Nordby. It is unknown where it was located, but church sites are often permanent, there is a good reason to assume that it was located where the church still has its place.

The first known description of a church building is from 1688. In the 1770s, the church was close to ending its days and in 1774 the Danish king gave the inhabitants of Drøbak permission to build a new church. The king set the conditions and told the villagers that they had to demolish the old church, the villagers resisted. This is how they succeeded in saving their church.

In the 1820s, Nordby church was so dilapidated that its owner, First Lieutenant Jørgen Brochmann, offered the church to the congregation as a gift, which they refused. In 1826, the owner arranged built, supposedly "both bigger and more beautiful" than the old one.

The church interior been through a process of changing the colour scheme recent. The blood-red colour that put a distinctive signature on the church room earlier has changed. This has given a subdued and beautiful expression.

The Middel age church, was named after Saint Margaret, who was a Catholic patron saint of farmers, maids, nursing mothers, and nannies. 

About one hundred meters northwest of the church are the remains of a burial ground.