Tune Church

Throughout the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, Tune was one of the most powerful places in Eastern Norway. A church built at Tune in the early 1100s, were the largest church building in the county. During the Reformation, the alter stone destroyed, years later parts from the alter stone was found at a farm used as a door slab on toilet.  In 1627, an oblong stone with a two-sided inscription appeared in the churchyard wall.

It turned out to be one of the longest known runic inscriptions in the country. The inscription is a rare memorial dedication that to the chieftain Vodurid sometime between 200 and 450 e.kr.  

Tune has been a church site since the early Middle Ages. The medieval church was years later demolished, and materials from the old church created the foundation for the new one. Today’s church from 1863 burned down in 1908, and rebuilt the following year, in 1909. Little, therefore, remains of the medieval church's materials, except for the altar stone.