Bolligen

Bolligen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. In the historic middle is a 12th-century church, with a benefice barn and parsonage from the 16th century. Bolligen is first cited in 1180 as Bollingin. Traces of a neolithic settlement have been determined in Burech. There are lines of an earthen castle of an indeterminate age above Flugbrunnen, together with medieval earthen forts at Grauholz and at the Bantiger. Bolligen, Muri bei Bern, Stettlen and Vechigen were the primary villages to come back beneath Bern's manipulate as Bern started out its expansion into a town-country.

During the thirteenth and 14th centuries, representatives of Bern and the Kyburg Counts frequently met in Bolligen for negotiations. After the extinction of the Knights of Gerenstein, their citadel, Gerenstein Castle and the Geristein farms exceeded into non-public possession. The fort and farm handed via the hands of a number of wealthy Bernese residents and numerous monasteries, along with Interlaken Abbey and Thorberg Charterhouse. The city of Bern additionally persisted to acquire rights round Bolligen.