page_title: Kirchenthurnen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kirchenthurnen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Kirchenthurnen, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Kirchenthurnen, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Kirchenthurnen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Kirchenthurnen has an area of 1.23 km² (0.47 sq mi). As of 2012, a total of 0.97 km² (0.37 sq mi) or 77.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.13 km² (0.050 sq mi) or 10.4% is forested.  The rest of the municipality is 0.15 km² (37 acres) or 12.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 8.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 46.4% is used for growing crops and 30.4% is pasturage. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  It is located in the Gürbetal (Gürbe valley) on the eastern slope of the Längenberg. The parish of Kirchenthurnen includes Burgistein, Kaufdorf, Lohnstorf, Mühlethurnen and Rümligen.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Seftigen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.
caption: Kirchenthurnen
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