Turn

Turn was the Bernese Oberland estate of the Valais barons von Turn. Johann I acquired Frutigen and the Lauterbrunnen valley through marriage, and his son Peter III held them in 1337.

Peter fought Bishop Guichard Tavelli, and in 1375 Anton von Turn had the bishop murdered. Driven from Valais, Anton saw the Gestelnburg destroyed in 1384. He sold the Lauterbrunnen estates to Interlaken Abbey in 1395 and Frutigen to Bern in 1400; the family died out with him in 1405.