Known from records since approximately 1280, it is believed to have been built and put into service around 1200.

It is dedicated to St Martin of Tours considered its patron saint.

The tower was added in the 15th century but the baptismal chapel and the porch were completed as late as the 1850s.

There are many frescoes of the period;[4] one depicts him as a soldier sitting on his horse, while he cuts a piece of his officer cap and gives it to a beggar.

[7][8] The altarpiece (1667) of 6 m (20 ft) height is decorated with figures wearing grotesque masks or with mustaches, some of whom are stooping low)[4] and is attributed to the woodcarver Abel Schrøder (1602–1676) who was also the church's organist for forty-two years.