District of Thun

District of Thun
Basic data
Country:	Switzerland
Canton :	Bern (BE)
Main town :	Tuna
Area :	266.78 km²
Residents:	92,248 (December 31, 2008)
Population density :	346 inhabitants per km²
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The district of Thun was an administrative unit of the Canton of Bern until December 31, 2009 . The administrative district with the main town Thun comprised 26 communities with 92,248 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008) on 266.78 km²:

Communities

Name of the parish	Population (December 31, 2008)	Area in km²	Inhabitants per km²
Amsoldingen	801	4.71	170
Flower stone	1163	15.52	75
Buchholterberg	1524	15.33	99
Eriz	510	21.78	23
Fahrni	741	6.68	111
Forst-Längenbühl	714	4.50	159
Heiligenschwendi	631	5.55	114
Heimberg	6071	5.44	1116
Hilterfingen	3987	2.81	1419
Hof bei Thun	410	4.60	89
Homberg	505	6.51	78
Horrenbach beeches	252	20.40	12
Oberhofen am Thunersee	2364	2.71	872
Oberlangenegg	488	9.16	53
Pohlern	267	9.87	27
Schwendibach	253	1.49	170
Sigriswil	4608	55.41	83
Steffisburg	15,379	13.32	1155
Teuffenthal (BE)	171	4.53	38
Thierachern	2205	7.53	293
Tuna	42,129	21.57	1953
Uebeschi	691	4.42	156
Uetendorf	5969	10.17	587
Unterlangenegg	909	6.80	134
Wax thorn	238	3.51	68
Zwieselberg	268	2.46	109
Total (26)	92,248	266.78	346

Changes in the community

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  Municipalities until 1912

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  Municipalities until 1919

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  Municipalities until 2006

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  Municipalities until 2009

• 1859: Merger of Blumenstein and Tannenbühl → Blumenstein
• 1869: Heimberg and Thungschneit → Heimberg merge
• 1913: Merger of Goldiwil and Thun → Thun
• 1920: Strättligen and Thun → Thun merged
• 2007: Fusion of Forst and Längenbühl → Forst-Längenbühl
• 2010: District change of all 26 municipalities from the administrative district of Thun → administrative district of Thun

history

In 1218, the Counts of Kyburg received the Thun City Court and the external office with Steffisburg and Sigriswil from Zähringen property. After the Burgdorf War in 1384, the area fell to Bern. With the takeover of the counties on the left and right of the Aare , the entire area became the Thun mayor's office.

During the Helvetic Republic , 1798 to 1803, with the canton of Oberland , the office consisted only of the municipalities of Thun, Oberhofen and Sigriswil, the other municipalities remained with the canton of Bern. This situation lasted until the collapse of the Helvetic Republic , after which the entire area fell back to the Canton of Bern. The administrative district had the above municipal stock from 1863, when the municipalities of Buchholterberg and Wachseldorn were incorporated into the administrative district.

Web links

Commons : District of Thun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Küffer: Thun (Vogtei, administrative district). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Statistical Office