In the Codex Eberhardi, it says:... Manto comes et frater eius Megingoz tradiderunt sancto Bonifacio bona sua in his locis: Isinhusen, Wanchei, Heselere, Tungede, Binizfelt, Hoholtesheim, Steti, Bucheled ...The placename Thüngen comes from the word Thing (also seen in Old English þing in the same sense, namely “assembly”).

From 1551, with lordly approval, the Reformation was definitively introduced, which led to considerable contention between the denominations over the next few centuries, especially in the wake of the Thirty Years' War, which left part of the village in the hands of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (administered by the Juliusspital, a hospital foundation that still exists now).

In 1923, the association Bayern und Reich (“Bavaria and Empire”) staged an event in Thüngen at which owing to arguments with inhabitants, a worker was killed.

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The community's arms might be described thus: Gules a cogwheel spoked of six argent between two ears of grain palewise with stalks turned to base Or, in a chief embattled of two merlons and one embrasure of the second a fess paly wavy of seven of the third and first.

The partition in the escutcheon is meant to resemble battlements (two merlons and, in the middle, one embrasure), which represents the local castle, which is the community's landmark.

In the chief (the band of a different tincture on top) are the family arms of the Barons of Thüngen, Lutz Line.

Saint George's Evangelical Church in the community core was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and, owing to the Catholic Juliusspital’s ownership entitlements, could not be built again until the 19th century.

According to official statistics, there were 363 workers on the social welfare contribution rolls working in producing businesses in 1998.

On the heights of the inn Schwarzer Adler (“Black Eagle”), Staatsstraße (State Road) 2437 meets Bundesstraße 27 towards Würzburg on the B 26.

As of 1999 the following institutions existed in Thüngen: In 2007, the local CSU association was taken as an example in a Stern article about Edmund Stoiber’s resignation from his offices of Minister-President and party chairman.