Kirchenthurnen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

The oldest trace of a settlement in the area are several Hallstatt era graves discovered at the Ried gravel pit.

In 1343 the village, church and surrounding lands were donated by the Blankenburgs to Interlaken Monastery.

In 1528 Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and forcefully secularized Interlaken Monastery.

This brought Kirchenthurnen under Bernese rule and it became the center of the bailiwick of Thurnen, though in the 18th century it moved to Mühlethurnen.

In the 1960s it grew again as Bern expanded and commuters moved into more distant communities.

The parish of Kirchenthurnen includes Burgistein, Kaufdorf, Lohnstorf, Mühlethurnen and Rümligen.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Tower embatteled Argent.

In 2011, single family homes made up 40.3% of the total housing in the municipality.

In the federal election, a total of 111 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.8%.

[9] There were 165 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 259 or 88.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 12 or 4.1% 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.

[24] During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 39 students attending classes from Kirchenthurnen.