Bakke Church (Trondheim) Bakke Church (Trondheim) Bakke Church () is a parish church in Trondheim municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Bakklandet area of the city of Trondheim, and the church serves the Bakklandet, Møllenberg, Rosenborg, and Nedre Elvehavn areas of Østbyen in Trondheim. It is the church for the Bakklandet parish which is part of the Nidaros domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The red, octagonal, wooden church was built in 1715 and it was designed by the architect Johan Christopher Hempel (died 1729). The church seats about 400 people. It is the oldest building in the
Trondheim toll scheme fund the building of new ring roads so that the heaviest traffic would not have to pass through the city centre. But part of the reason for this traffic is that Trondheim Port is located on an artificial island only accessible via the city centre and Trondheim has yet to do like most cities and move its port out of the city centre, like the London Docklands and Fjordbyen in Oslo. There are ongoing discussions on whether the port should be moved from its current location. The lack of a bypass outside the residential areas, along with less than optimal