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The village of Bunge is renowned for its fourteenth century church Bunge Kyrka, built in Gothic style. Its tower was constructed in the thirteenth century to defend an earlier church – holes from pikes and arrows in the north wall bear witness to past battles.

Inside are beautiful limestone paintings dating from around 1400, which are thought to depict the Teutonic Knights fighting the Vitalien brothers, pirates of Mecklenburg who occupied Gotland in the 1390s. in the chancel is a poor box in limestone signed by stonemason Lafrans Botvidarson. Like the font, it dates from the thirteenth century.

Next to the church is Bungemuseet, one of Sweden’s largest rural museums. It was created in 1917 by Bunge schoolteacher Theodor Erlandsson, who wanted to show how the people of Gotland used to live. In the fields next to the school he gathered together cottages, buildings and cultural objects from different parts of Gotland covering the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries as well as four carved stones from the eighth century.


 

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