Pohlern is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland .

Pohlern is first mentioned in 1389 as in der Polleren.

Until the Late Middle Ages Pohlern was virtually uninhabited forest in the Herrschaft of Strättligen. During the 14th century it was gradually settled under the rule of the Freiherr von Burgistein . By 1417 the Barfüsser (Franciscan mendicant) monastery in Bern owned some land and rights in the village. In 1459 it was combined with Uebeschi to form the Herrschaft of Pohlern.