00:00Thun Castle, German. Schloss Thun, is a castle in the city of Thun, in the Swiss canton of
00:11Bern. It was built in the 12th century. Today houses the Thun Castle Museum and is a Swiss
00:17heritage site of national significance. During the early Middle Ages, there was a small fort
00:23and church on the top of the castle hill. The castle was built between 1180 and 1190
00:28by Duke Berthold V of Zahringen, who constructed the still-preserved keep to the level of the
00:33Knight's Hall, German Rittersaal. The 14 meters, 46 feet, tall Knight's Hall was built as the
00:39centerpiece of a monument to Zahringen power. However, the family never lived in the castle,
00:44preferring Bergdorf Castle. In 1218 it was inherited by the House of Kyberg, who built
00:50the upper levels above the Zahringen Castle. A quarrel over who would rule the southern
00:55Kyberg lands led, in 1322, to Eberhard II von Kyberg murdering his brother Hartmann II at
01:01the castle. To protect his newly acquired land from the Habsburgs Eberhard II then sold them
01:07to Bern and was promptly given them back as a fief. The Kybergs ruled over the region for nearly
01:12two centuries until a failed raid by Rudolf II on Solothurn, in 1382, started the Bergdorfer
01:19Krieg, also Kyberger Krieg. After several decisive Bernese victories the Kybergs were forced to
01:24concede an unfavorable peace. In 1384 Bern bought Thun and Bergdorf, the most important cities of
01:31the Kyberg lands. The castle came under Bernese control and became the seat of their local
01:36administration. Daguerreotype photograph of Thun Castle, taken by Franziska Mollinger c.
01:421844 The massive roof, 1430-36, comes from the Bernese period. Due to the lack of residences
01:49in the castle, in 1429, an administrative and residential wing was added to the west of the keep.
01:56Built in late gothic style and known as the New Castle. The castle was the seat of the local court
02:01and since at least the 17th century there was a prison under the roof of the donjon.
02:06In 1886 a new prison was built on the castle grounds. Two years later, in 1888, the museum
02:13opened in the castle. For a time the jailer was also the ticket seller and guard for the museum.
02:18In 2006, the castle was bought by the city of Thun from the canton of Bern.
02:24Until the end of 2009, the Bernese Oberland regional court was based in the castle.
02:29The castle museum The Castle Museum is housed on the five floors of the tower and includes
02:34cultural and historic displays showing the development of the region over some 4,000 years.
02:39It is open daily between February and October, and on Sundays only for the rest of the year.
02:45The Great Hall is used for concerts or plays and can be used for private events.
02:50Thun, French Thoun, is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the
02:55canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Arée flows out of Lake Thun, Thunersee,
03:0230 kilometers southeast of Bern. As of December 2018, the municipality has
03:07almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.
03:12Besides tourism, machine, and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country,
03:18the food industry, armaments, and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.
03:23The official language of Thun is the Swiss variety of Standard German,
03:27but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic-Swiss-German dialect.
03:32The area of what is now Thun was inhabited since the Neolithic age, mid-3rd millennium BC.
03:38During the Early Bronze Age there were a number of settlements along the lake shore in the Arée.
03:43A site at Rensenboel had a local chief or nobleman's grave which contained one of the
03:47richest collections of early Bronze Age artifacts in Europe. The Thun-Rensenboel axe, dating from
03:531800 BC, is one of the earliest examples of damascening techniques in the world.
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