Bellmund (French: Belmont) is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The oldest traces of a settlement in the area are a few, scattered neolithic items found on the Jensberg hill.

During the High Middle Ages, Knebelburg Castle (also spelled Chnebelburg) was built on the Jensberg.

By 1107 the royal family of Burgundy founded a Cluniac priory near the village.

In 1127, the priory moved to St. Peter's Island in the nearby Lake Biel.

When the Protestant Reformation came to Bellmund in 1528, the village accepted the new faith and became part of the parish of Nidau.

In 1980 the Stöckleren development was built to provide housing for the growing population.

Of the rest of the land, 0.56 km2 (0.22 sq mi) or 14.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.

[5] The municipality is located in the Berner Seeland south of Biel, between the Oberholz and Jensberg hills.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Nidau, the municipality's former district, was dissolved and, the next day, joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Biel/Bienne.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Quartered Gules and Argent a Crozier of the last in bend between two Suns of the first.

In 2011, single family homes made up 79.2% of the total housing in the municipality.

In the federal election, a total of 597 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.

In the tertiary sector; 24 or 51.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 6.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 10.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 6 or 12.8% were in education.

[21] In 2011 a total of 1.0% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.

[22] From the 2000 census[update], 812 or 66.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 207 or 17.0% were Roman Catholic.

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

Thereafter, the lower secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.