Brienzwiler is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] During the Middle Ages Brienzwiler was held by the Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family of Rudenz.

The Rudenz family held the village until 1361 when they sold it to a citizen of Bern.

Bern assigned Brienzwiler to the newly created, secular bailiwick of Interlaken.

Today the local economy is based on wood carving, government jobs, hotel and tourism related work and the Ballenberg Open Air Museum.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure on a Bend Argent a Tower embattled Gules.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (543 or 93.6%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (23 or 4.0%) and English is the third (6 or 1.0%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The Swiss Open Air Museum, Ballenberg (Schweizerisches Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg), which is shared with Hofstetten, is listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire village of Brienzwiler is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the tertiary sector; 9 or 20.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 14.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 7.0% were technical professionals or scientists and 13 or 30.2% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 41 or 7.1% were Roman Catholic, while 442 or 76.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[17] Brienzwiler railway station on the Brünig line is served by an hourly Regio train between Interlaken and Meiringen.

However the station is located some 1.5 km (0.93 mi) to the south-west of the village centre.

Brienzwiler village is also served by a twice-hourly post bus service from Brienz.