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

[3] The land around the modern village and what ever settlements were there belonged to the Herrschaft of Heimberg in the 13th century.

On 11 November 1382, Rudolf II von Kyburg, attempted unsuccessfully to attack Solothurn.

Bern used the war to expand north into the Aargau and south into the Oberland.

After the Kyburg defeat, as part of the peace treaty, Bern bought the city of Thun and all its surrounding lands including Teuffenthal.

[5] It lies in the valley of the river Zulg on the north flank of Blueme mountain, some 10 km (6.2 mi) eastward of the district capital Thun.

The municipality has no direct center, but consists of isolated hamlets and scattered farm settlements.

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

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (190 or 96.4%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (4 or 2.0%) and English is the third (2 or 1.0%).

[14] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][15][16] As of  2011[update], Teuffenthal had an unemployment rate of 0.61%.

[9] There were 94 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.2% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 18 or 85.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 14.3% were in education.

[21] In 2011 a total of 3.7% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.

In the federal election, a total of 85 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 61.2%.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 150 or 76.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 8 or 4.1% were Roman Catholic.