Frutigen

Frutigen is a municipality inside the Bernese Oberland inside the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. The region around Frutigen may additionally have been settled given that likely the Bronze age or Roman instances. It is first cited in 1234 as Frutingen. During the Middle Ages there were three castles in the cutting-edge municipal border; Halten, Tellenburg and Burg. By 1260 the scattered farmers of the valley ground had fashioned a political and enterprise association.

The affiliation had its very own seal in 1263 and in 1340 it negotiated a peace with an affiliation in the Obersimmental. In 1391, the village of Frutigen gained the right to maintain the low court inside the village. In 1400, the expanding town-country of Bern annexed the entire valley. However, the affiliation turned into powerful enough to pressure Bern to make concessions. The residents of the valley were freed from the obligation to pay taxes or offer labor for local lords and their soldiers marched below their very own banner. The valley held onto these freedoms until 1854.