State Church and Church State: Churches and their Interiors in Post-Reformation Norway, 1537–1705

In 1686 the secretary of the diocese of Bergen, Hermann Garmann, spent the entire summer conducting a survey of the state of the ecclesiastical buildings in the region; he travelled from church to church, providing a description of each building and its state of repair.1 is was the rst such survey of its kind in Norway and it provides some insights into the condition of the churches in the diocese more than a century and a half aer the Norwegian Reformation and the establishment of the Lutheran faith.