Huttwil

Huttwil is a municipality inside the Oberaargau administrative district inside the Swiss canton of Bern. Huttwil is first referred to within the 9th Century as Huttiwilare. The Huttwil vicinity became probable first settled in the 7th or 8th century, although it first appears in ancient facts inside the ninth century. Initially it become part of the Upper Aargau lands of the Adalgoze own family, even though by using the 11th and 12th centuries the Counts of Rheinfelden and Fenis-Neuchatel owned land and rights in Huttwil.

In the twelfth century Fenis-Neuchatel donated their Huttwil lands to Erlach Abbey. The village church is first cited in 1093 or 1108 when Agnes von Rheinfelden and her husband Berchtold II von adonated the patronage rights to the Abbey of Saint Peter inside the Black Forest. The the rest of the Rheinfelden rights exceeded to the Zahringens through Agnes' marriage. When the Zahringen family died out in 1218 the Counts of Kyburg acquired the growing city and surrounding lands.