Instead it was built centrally between the four villages of Samsø's north island: Nordby, Mårup, Søby and Glistrup.

The church's distance from Nordby meant that the villagers were unable to hear the church bell, so a bell tower was built in the 1600s in the center of Nordby, on a small plaza known locally as Galgepladsen.

The current version of the village's bell tower was built in 1857.

Other than church events, the bell tower also rang to warn against fires or when an animal was butchered and its meat sold on the plaza.

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