Büetigen is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The earliest trace of humans in Büetigen are scattered mesolithic and neolithic tools and items.

La Tene era graves and an early medieval cemetery have also been found.

Büetigen became part of the new bailiwick of Frienisberg while the military administration and the high court was in Büren.

After the 1798 French invasion, the village of Büetigen, without the surrounding farms, became part of the Helvetic Republic's Büren district.

A project to drain marshes and control the river in 1943-52 drastically changed the appearance of the valley floor.

While farming and raising livestock is still important, about 70% of the working population commutes to Lyss, Bern and Biel/Bienne.

It shares a vital records office and doctor with Diessbach bei Büren and the secondary school with Dotzigen.

Of the rest of the land, 0.36 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 10.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes.

It consists of the village of Büetigen, the cluster of farm houses at Im Tal and the new developments at Buchenweg and Birkenweg.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Bear paw Argent issuant from chief sinister and a Mullet of the same.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (673 or 95.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (19 or 2.7%) and Italian is the third (5 or 0.7%).

In the tertiary sector; 2 or 6.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 9.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 16.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 25.8% were in education and 5 or 16.1% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 66 or 9.3% were Roman Catholic, while 540 or 76.4% 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.