Heimberg

Heimberg is a municipality within the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Heimberg is first referred to in 1146 as Heimberc. The oldest hint of a settlement inside the location are the Roman settlement ruins close to Bühlacker. By the Middle Ages the village existed and became dominated via the Freiherr von Heimberg. Very little is understood approximately the own family. They appear in historic data from 1146 till 1175 and then vanish. By 1191 the Zahringens owned the village.

It was later divided and inherited by means of the Counts of Kyburg and the Counts of Buchegg. In 1259 Buchegg donated their component to Interlaken Abbey but the Kyburgs retained their 1/2 ownership and, apparently, full manage over the village. After a failed raid on Solothurn on Martinmas 1382 and the resulting Burgdorferkrieg, the Kyburgs lost maximum in their lands to Bern in 1384. The metropolis of Bern then handed the 1/2 portion of the village to the Bernese Schultheiss Ludwig von Seftigen to rule as a private dominion within the Steffisburg court under the Thun District.