Thun power station

Thun power station is an industrial building in Steffisburg, Thun District, Canton of Bern which is located on Scheibenstrasse. Thun power station is situated nearby to the power station AAREwerke Thun, as well as near Selve-Park.

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Type: Industrial building
Also known as: “AAREwerk62”
Address: Scheibenstrasse 20a, Thun, 3600

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thun Castle and Schwäbis railway station.

Thun Castle

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Thun Castle is a castle in the city of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It was built in the 12th century, today houses the Thun Castle museum, and is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Thun Castle is situated 690 metres east of Thun power station.

Schwäbis railway station

Railway stop

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Schwäbis railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Steffisburg, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is located on the standard gauge Burgdorf–Thun line of BLS AG. Schwäbis railway station is situated 190 metres northwest of Thun power station.

Thun railway station

Railway station

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Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. At the station, the Swiss Federal Railways owned Bern to Thun main line makes a junction with the other lines, all owned by the BLS AG. Thun railway station is situated 1 km southeast of Thun power station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thun and Steffisburg.

Thun

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Thun is a small city in the Bernese Highlands of Bern Canton, Switzerland. Its surface area is 21.7 km², and it had about 44,000 inhabitants in 2017.

Steffisburg

Town

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Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.

Allmendingen bei Thun

Neighborhood

Strättligen is a former municipality of the Swiss canton of Bern, since 1920 incorporated into the municipality of Thun. Its area accounts for roughly the southern half of the territory of present-day Thun municipality, including the districts of Scherzligen, Dürrenast, Neufeld, Allmendingen, Buchholz, Schoren, Gwatt. Allmendingen bei Thun is situated 3 km southwest of Thun power station.

Thun power station

Categories: run-of-river hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
Location: Steffisburg, Thun District, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

46.76167° or 46° 45′ 42″ north

Longitude

7.62129° or 7° 37′ 17″ east

Inception

1962

Operator

Energie Thun

Open location code

8FR9QJ6C+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 457350302

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q63373317

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In Other Languages

“Thun power station” goes by many names.

German: “Kraftwerk Thun”

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