Einigen, Kirche, Church and Legend; Lake Thun

There are twelve churches on Lake Thun, and this, St. Michael's,  is apparently the "mother" church, see //www.myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/destinations/nature/offer-About_Wedding-Wedding_Chappels-308480.html/ It was built in 1223, see http://www.ywam-einigen.ch/?p=region/.
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Einigen Kirche, Einegen Church, Lake Thun, Switzerland

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Read the legend of the Duke Strattlingen, his patron, the Archangel Michael, and the miraculous return of the Duke to his wife just before she was to be remarried (he had given permission years before, if he did not return to claim her), and the building of this church in thanksgiving.

See that and more legends at Legends of Switzerland, at google books at page 116 give or take; at ://books.google.com/books?id=k_8YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=Einigen+church+Switzerland&source=bl&ots=phhulMRaoO&sig=i_5dN8MsqNbdgMDHNnoQoFYqzDU&hl=en&ei=60MdS_KGJYzjlAfK1e3xCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=&f=false/.

Oberhofen Castle, Lake Thun, Switzerland

Castle Oberhofen, Schloss Oberhofen, Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland

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Oberhofen am Thunersee

Drive around Lake Thun, going the high road, not the easy coastal lake road, and find Oberhofen - dating from the 13th Century, passed into the hands of the Austrian Habsburgs, then the Bernese from the north (also German-speaking), other comings and goings and, ultimately a museum, and now an independent foundation again. See ://www.schlossoberhofen.ch/en/home/history/; remembering that schloss means castle.

Oberhofen Castle, Tower Detail, Lake Thun, Switzerland

There are parks and gardens along the lake, Lake Thun. The castle is a branch of the Bernese Historical Museum. See also ://www.myswitzerland.com/en/destinations/top_attractions/attractions-museums/castle-oberhofen-museum-and-park.html/ Oberhofen am Thunersee. We even tried to find more of its history using the non-English, and find little. Still looking. Who were the original people?

Schloss Oberhofen, Gated Entryway, Lake of Thun, Switzerland; Castle Oberhofen