Bunge, Gotland Explained

Official Name:	Bunge
Native Name:	Bungge
Pushpin Map:	Sweden Gotland
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Sweden
Subdivision Type3:	Municipality
Subdivision Name3:	Gotland Municipality
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Gotland County
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Gotland
Area Footnotes:	^[1]
Area Total Km2:	34
Population As Of:	2014
Population Footnotes:	^[2]
Population Total:	886
Timezone:	CET
Utc Offset:	+1
Timezone Dst:	CEST
Utc Offset Dst:	+2
Coordinates:	57.8536°N 19.0233°W

Bunge is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It is situated in the northernmost part of Gotland, southwest of Fårösund.^[3] It comprises the same area as the administrative Bunge District, established on 1January 2016.^[4]

Geography

Bunge is the name of the socken as well as the district. It is also the name of the small village surrounding the medieval Bunge Church,^[5] sometimes referred to as Bunge kyrkby. It is situated on the north coast of Gotland.^[6]

, Bunge Church belongs to Bunge-Rute-Fleringe parish in Norra Gotlands pastorat, along with the churches in Rute and Fleringe.^{[7] [8]}

Places of interest

Bunge has a private airfield, the Bunge Airbase.^[9] The hangar and the airfield are listed buildings.^[10]

Gotland's (and one of Sweden's) most noted open-air museum is the Bunge museum. The museum has farms from three centuries (17th, 18th and 19th) and is also very active in practical old industry such as recreating tar kilns and charcoal piles.^[11]

Further reading

• Book: Erlandsson. Anna. Blomberg. Maj-Gun. Bunge skolmuseum: en skildring av skolväsendet i Bunge från tiden före folkskolestadgan 1842 fram till 1920-talets skola. 1982. Kulturhistoriska mus. i Bunge. Fårösund. 16 June 2014.
• Book: Svahnström. Gunnar. Bunge kyrka: historik och beskrivning. 1981. Bunge församling. Fårösund. 16 June 2014.
• Book: Erlandsson. Anna. Bungemuseet: kort vägledning. 1976. Kulturhistoriska mus. i Bunge. Fårösund. 16 June 2014.
• Book: The Bunge museum. 1975. Kulturhistoriska museet i Bunge. Bunge. 16 June 2014.

External links

• Objects from Bunge at the Digital Museum by Nordic Museum

Notes and References

1. Book: Carlquist, Gunnar. Svensk Uppslagsbok. 1947–1955. Förlagshuset Norden. Malmö. 2nd. 67. sv.
2. Web site: Gotland i siffror 2015. Gotland in numbers 2015. www.gotland.se. Gotland Municipality. 25 May 2016. 30 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180130042935/http://gotland.se/64224. dead.
3. The exact extent of the socken, now district, can be obtained by clicking on Kartinställningar and check the Socken box in the menu of this map from the Swedish National Heritage Board database.
4. Web site: Förordning om district. Regulation of districts. 17 June 2015. Ministry of Finance. 24 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20180930041909/http://rkrattsdb.gov.se/SFSdoc/15/150493.PDF. 30 September 2018. dead.
5. Book: Lagerlöf. Erland. Svahnström. Gunnar. Gotlands kyrkor. Gotland's Churches. sv. . 1973. Rabén & Sjögren. Stockholm. 91-29-41035-5. 108–110.
6. Web site: Bunge. www.ne.se. Nationalencyklopedin. 27 May 2016.
7. Web site: Församlingar på Gotland . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 11 January 2019.
8. Web site: Visby stifts indelning 2018 . www.svenskakyrkan.se . . 11 January 2019.
9. Web site: Martinsson. Gert. Bunge airfield. bungeflygfalt.se. Bunge airfield. 11 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140917150554/http://bungeflygfalt.se/eng/index.htm. 17 September 2014. dead.
10. Web site: Bunge Kronhagen 3:2 O 3:9 O 3:19 och flygfältet 1:1 KA 3:S fd garnisonsområde med franska kasernen och flygfältet. raa.se. Riksantikvarieämbetet. 11 June 2014.
11. Web site: Bungemuseet. www.bungemuseet.se. Föreningen Kulturhistoriska Museet i Bunge. 11 June 2014.