Bätterkinden is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

In 1406, the Kyburgs pledged Bätterkinden to Heinrich Ringoltingen to repay some of their debts.

In 1510, Bern acquired Bätterkinden and four years later the rest of the Herrschaft of Landshut.

[3] Following the 1798 French invasion, Bätterkinden became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Burgdorf.

The village was once on the Bern-Solothurn-Basel highway and had a toll station in Krailigen, but now it is bypassed by the major transportation routes.

While the Bern-Solothurn railway station and a bridge over the Emme river provide local transportation, very little industry settled in the village.

A wood pulp factory opened in 1865 and converted into a paper mill in 1893 before closing in 1930.

While some of the residents work in local industry or agriculture, over two-thirds of workers, in 1990, commuted to jobs in Bern.

It consists of the villages of Bätterkinden and Kräiligen and the hamlets of Alp, Holzhäusern and Berchtoldshof as well as scattered farm houses.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules an Ear Or and in Chief of the last three Pales wavy Azure.

[6][10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,562 or 94.9%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (21 or 0.8%) and Italian is the third (16 or 0.6%).

[6] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The farm house at Solothurnstrasse 39 and the village church at Bernstrasse 15 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The municipal council is the executive, and consists of seven members chosen by proportional representation.

[10] There were 1,484 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.9% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 173 or 49.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 4.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 40 or 11.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 20 or 5.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 32 or 9.1% were in education and 17 or 4.9% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 326 or 12.1% were Roman Catholic, while 1,931 or 71.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

[19] During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 383 students attending classes in Bätterkinden.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 10,330 books or other media, and loaned out 23,261 items in the same year.

[21] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Bätterkinden was 36.6 per thousand residents.

[22] The city is a stop on the Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS), which runs on a synchronized timetable, generally every half-hour.