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Kirchenthurnen

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Also known as Kirchenthurnen BE

Kirchenthurnen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipalities of Kirchenthurnen, Lohnstorf and Mühlethurnen merged to form the municipality of Thurnen.

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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Kirchenthurnen, and connects out to Canton of Berne, Switzerland and German.

It is catalogued under the topic Former municipalities of the canton of Bern.

Vinony links it to 26 Wikipedia language editions.

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Place details

Locality
Thurnen
Region
Bern/Berne
Country
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
Population
0

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Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Kirchenthurnen
Swiss town.image_photo
Kirche_Kirchenthurnen.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type
former
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Kirchenthurnen COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Kirchenthurnen Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Bern
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-BE
Swiss town.district
Bern-Mittelland
Swiss town.postal_code
3128
Swiss town.municipality_code
0873
Swiss town.area
1.3
Swiss town.elevation
612
Swiss town.population
272
Swiss town.populationof
Dec 2012
Swiss town.website
www.kirchenthurnen.ch
Swiss town.mayor
Walter Wiedmer
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Gelterfingen, Mühledorf, Mühlethurnen, Riggisberg, Rümligen

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Kirchenthurnen
Population
279
Area
1.23
Elevation
612
Official website
www.kirchenthurnen.ch
Image
Kirchenthurnen.jpg
Dialing code
031
Licence plate code
BE
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Commons category
Kirchenthurnen
postal code
3128
native label
Kirchenthurnen
external data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/873
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Kirchenthurnen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipalities of Kirchenthurnen, Lohnstorf and Mühlethurnen merged to form the municipality of Thurnen.

==History== Kirchenthurnen is first mentioned in 1228 as Tornes. Until 1860 it was known as Thurnen. The name was changed to prevent confusion with the municipality of Mühlethurnen.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirchenthurnen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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