Homberg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Originally the small farming villages that make up Homberg were part of the Herrschaft of Heimberg under the House of Kyburg.

After a failed raid on Solothurn on 11 November 1382 and the resulting Burgdorferkrieg, the Kyburgs lost most of their lands, including Homberg, to Bern in 1384.

[3] Traditionally the farmers of the villages practiced seasonal alpine herding with limited farming on the high valley floor.

In the late 20th and into the 21st centuries many of the residents commuted to jobs in Thun, while many of the remainder worked in tourism.

The rest of the municipality is 0.28 km2 (0.11 sq mi) or 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.

It includes the hamlets of Dreiligass, Enzenbühl, Huckhaus and Fuhren along with scattered farm houses.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Thun.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Tower roofed Argent issuant from a Mount of six Coupeaux Vert between two Mullets Or.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (472 or 97.3%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (5 or 1.0%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (3 or 0.6%).

[9] There were 245 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.4% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 3 or 12.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 8 or 32.0% were in education and 8 or 32.0% were in health care.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 380 or 78.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 14 or 2.9% were Roman Catholic.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

The municipality's primary school had 94 students in German language classes.

[18] Swiss-Bulgarian sports pedagogue Louis-Emil Eyer was born in Homberg.