Thierachern

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

The remains of a Roman era settlement and graves were discovered under the village church.

Additional Roman or early medieval stone lined cists were found near Egg.

Other graves, of an indeterminate age, have been found in Oberen Hasliholz, by Halterain and by Wahlen.

The current church dates to 1706-08 when Abraham Dünz the Younger rebuilt the old building.

When the Strättligen family died out in 1349, the village was inherited and sold to several lords over the following centuries.

They sold it to Bern in 1607 and the village became part of the Bernese Thun District.

In 1841 the village sold a large Allmend or common field (about 23% of the total land area) to the Swiss Army for a training ground for the barracks at Thun.

[3] In the 1960s commuters began to move into the village to escape the growing city of Thun.

[5] The municipality is located 5 km (3.1 mi) from downtown Thun along the Aare river.

It consists of the village of Thierachern and the hamlets of Wahlen, Egg and Schwand.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Deer rampant Gules on a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,838 or 97.4%) as their first language, French is the second most common (17 or 0.9%) and English is the third (7 or 0.4%).

In 2012, single family homes made up 60.1% of the total housing in the municipality.

[14] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][15][16] As of  2011[update], Thierachern had an unemployment rate of 1.42%.

In the tertiary sector; 52 or 34.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 4.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 10 or 6.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 24 or 16.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 32 or 21.5% were in education and 12 or 8.1% were in health care.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 1,462 or 77.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 182 or 9.6% 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.

There were a total of 50 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality.