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THUN (Fr. Thoune)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 898 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
THUN (Fr. Thoune) , a picturesque little town in the Swiss
canton
  of Bern, built on the banks of the Aar, just as it issues from the Lake of Thun, and by rail 19 m. S.E. of Bern, or 171M. N.W. of Interlaken. It is the
capital
  of the Bernese Oberland, the snowy peaks of which are well seen from it. It has 6030 inhabitants, mostly German-speaking and Protestants. The 18th-century parish church and the 15th-century castle rise in a striking fashion above the town, in the
chief
 
street
  of which are arcades (locally called Lauben) as in Bern. There is a museum in the tower of the castle, while in and near the town (in the Heimberg valley) are several potteries of local
ware
 . From its local lords it passed by 1127 to the
house
  of Zahringen, and on its extinction (1218) to the
counts
  cf Kyburg. The heiress of that family brought Thun (and Burgdorf) in 1273 to the
cadet
  or Laufenburg line of the
Habsburg
  family, her mother having (1264) granted the town a charter of liberties that con-firmed an earlier grant of 1256. In 1375 the town was mortgaged to Bern, to which it was sold outright in 1384. From 1798 to 1802 Thun was the
capital
  of the
canton
  Oberland of the Helvetic Republic. (W. A. B. C.)


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