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Kirchenthurnen
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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.
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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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cached 680h agoPlace 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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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- Demographics
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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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