Thören is a village on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the north German state of Lower Saxony.

[1] In 1662 a school was established in Thören, In 1667, according to a preserved Amt register it had 4 farmsteads (Vollhöfe), 2 smallholdings (Halbhöfe), 7 farmers (Bauern), 2 cottagers (Kötner) and a tithe barn.

In 1966 the school was closed; after a time it was converted, together with the teacher's residence, into the Brase Inn, after the neighbouring inn of Voigt (formerly the post office) had been closed previously.

In 1972 Thören was incorporated into Winsen (Aller).

Thören's Schützenverein was founded in 1909 and its volunteer fire service in 1934.