Diemtigen is a village and a municipality of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

It is located at the northern end of the Diemtigtal elevated on a plateau west above the creek Chirel.

[3] The Diemtigen area was inhabited during the Bronze Age and possibly during the Mesolithic Era.

The third castle, Hasenburg near Diemtigen was first mentioned in 1257 as castrum de Diemtingen and in the 12th and 13th centuries was the seat of the Freiherr von Strättligen.

Beginning in the 15th century passes from the Diemtigen valley into Adelboden, Lenk and Zweisimmen opened up local trade.

Before the 19th century it was into mercenary service, while after 1800 they emigrated to North America, Germany or Russia.

Following the 1798 French invasion, Diemtigen became part of the Helvetic Republic Canton of Oberland.

[3] Beginning in the 18th century, several alpine spas were built around natural mineral springs.

Two of the most famous, the Rothbad Horben and the Kurhaus Grimmialp in Schwenden opened the village up to tourism.

The construction of Simmentalstrasse (Simmental road) and the Spiez-Zweisimmen railroad in 1897 opened up the valley to many new businesses and brought in an increasing number of tourists.

The railroad station was built in the village of Oey, which grew into the population and administrative center of the municipality.

However, agriculture still remains important and Diemtigen has 107 seasonal alpine pastures, the most of any Swiss municipality.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Gules and Argent a Castle embattled counterchanged.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,017 or 98.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (10 or 0.5%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (9 or 0.4%).

In 1986, Diemtigen was given the prize for consistent planning that remained spared much of an area measuring 130 km2 (50 sq mi) from development.

However, the municipality was able to create a number of large landscape protection zones, which limited and concentrated holiday house areas to a few places.

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

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 221, of which 219 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 52 or 21.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 37 or 15.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 82 or 34.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 12 or 5.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 4.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 16 or 6.6% were in education and 11 or 4.6% were in health care.

[25] From the 2000 census[update], 1,833 or 89.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 57 or 2.8% were Roman Catholic.

[10] Diemtigen sits on the Spiez–Zweisimmen line and is served by trains at the Wimmis and Burgholz railway stations.

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