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State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Bern (BE)

Administrative district :

Bern-Mittelland

Residential municipality :

Thurnen

Postal code :

3128

former BFS no. :

0873

Coordinates :

604 810 / 185800 coordinates: 46 ° 49 '24 " N , 7 ° 30' 6" O ; CH1903: 604,810 / 185800

Height :

612 m above sea level M.

Area :

1.3 km²

Population density :

225 inhabitants per km²

Mayor :

Barbara Zürcher-Wichtermann
( independent )

Website:

www.kirchenthurnen.ch

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Parish before the merger on January 1, 2020

Until December 31, 2019, Kirchenthurnen was a political municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland . On January 1, 2020, Kirchenthurnen merged with the former municipalities of Lohnstorf and Mühlethurnen to form the new municipality of Thurnen . Until 1860 the community was officially called Thurnen .

geography

Kirchenthurnen is 612 m above sea level. M. , 15 km south of the canton capital Bern (beeline). The village extends from a panoramic location on a terrace on the eastern slope of the Längenberg, around 70 m above the valley level of the Gürbe .

The area of the 1.3 km² former municipal area includes a section of the central Gürbe valley . The eastern part of the municipality lies in the agriculturally intensively used level of the Gürbe valley ( 540 m above sea level ) which is around 1.5 km wide here. The eastern boundary runs along a dirt road almost exactly in the middle of the valley floor, east of the canalised Gürbe. To the west, the parish grounds extend over the relatively gently rising slope and the terrace from Kirchenthurnen into the Buechwald . Here is on the eastern slope of the Längenberg at 740 m above sea level. M. reaches the highest point of Kirchenthurnen. In 1997, 12% of the municipal area was accounted for by settlements, 9% for forests and woodland and 78% for agriculture; a little less than 1% was unproductive land.

Some individual courtyards belong to church thurns. Neighboring communities of Kirchenthurnen were Rümligen , Kirchdorf , Mühlethurnen and Riggisberg .

population

With 293 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), Kirchenthurnen was one of the small communities in the canton of Bern. 97.3% of the residents speak German, 1.0% French and 0.3% speak Portuguese (as of 2000). The population of Kirchenthurnen was 284 in 1850 and 277 in 1900. In the course of the 20th century, the population initially decreased to 199 people by 1950, and then quickly increased again to 375 inhabitants. Since then, the population has decreased significantly again.

politics

The votes of the parties in the 2015 National Council elections were: SVP 50.5%, BDP 14.3%, SP 9.0%, EVP 5.6%, EDU 5.5%, FDP 5.1%, glp 4.8 %, GPS 3.0%, Philipp Jutzi 1.3%.

economy

Until the second half of the 20th century, Kirchenthurnen was a village dominated by agriculture . Even today, arable farming and vegetable growing in the Gürbetal, as well as dairy farming and cattle breeding on the slopes, have an important role in the income structure of the population. Further jobs are available in local small businesses and in the service sector. The street inspectorate of the Seftigen office is in Kirchenthurnen. The parish hall, built in 1978, serves as a multifunctional center for the region. In the last few decades the village has developed into a residential community thanks to its attractive location. Many employed people are therefore commuters who work mainly in the larger towns in the area, in the agglomeration of Bern or in the Thun area.

traffic

Kirchenthurnen is very well developed in terms of traffic. It is located on the main road from Bern through the Gürbetal to Thun , from which a road branches off via Riggisberg into the Schwarzenburgerland. Kirchenthurnen is connected to the public transport network through the Postbus courses, which serve the routes from the Toffen and Thurnen train stations to Riggisberg.

history

Graves from the Hallstatt period were found in the Ried gravel pit . The first written mention of the place took place in 1201 under the name Thornon . Later, the names Tornes (1228), Turindon (1262), Turnden (1318), Turndon (1323), Kirchturnden (1349), Thurondeon (1361) and Kirchturndon (1373). The etymology of the place name Thurnen is not clear, the word may come from the Celtic . To distinguish it from mill urns, the addition of church was used as early as the 14th century .

In the Middle Ages , Kirchenthurnen belonged to the area of the Lords of Blankenburg , but was sold to the Interlaken Monastery in 1343 . The sovereignty over Kirchenthurnen came to Bern in 1388. Since then, the village has been subordinate to the Seftigen district court. After the Reformation , in 1528 direct rule came from the monastery to the city of Bern, which Kirchenthurnen assigned to the court of Thurnen (from the 18th century Vennergericht Mühlethurnen).

After the collapse of the Ancien Régime (1798), Kirchenthurnen belonged to the Seftigen district during the Helvetic period and from 1803 to the Seftigen district office, which was given the status of an official district with the new cantonal constitution of 1831. Although the name Kirchenthurnen had long been used to distinguish it from Mühlethurnen, the municipality was not officially renamed from Thurnen to Kirchenthurnen until 1860. Since the middle of the 19th century, the Gürbe has been corrected in several stages and the valley, which was previously flooded every year, was largely corrected drains. In the course of time, valuable cultivated land was gained.

Attractions

Reformed Church of Kirchenthurnen

At the edge of the terrace of Kirchenthurnen stands the church, which can be seen from afar and which essentially dates back to the 13th century. The church was given its present form when it was largely rebuilt from 1671 to 1673. The church has valuable furnishings , including the choir stalls from the 15th century, the Renaissance pulpit from 1673, a baptismal font by Abraham Dünz , and various coats of arms from the 17th century and a remarkable organ from 1771. The rectory was rebuilt from 1739 to 1743 after a fire.

Web links

Commons : Kirchenthurnen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Elections 2015: Results of the Kirchenthurnen community. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 19, 2016.

[1] Elections 2015: Results of the Kirchenthurnen community. Canton of Bern, accessed on March 19, 2016.