Gondiswil (local dialect Gumiswil) is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The only evidence of prehistoric people in Gondiswil are some scattered neolithic items that were found near Staldershaus.

In 1194 the Baron of Langenstein granted some land in Gondiswil to St. Urban's Abbey.

Other religious houses also eventually acquired land in or around the village including the Benedictine monastery of St. Johannsen in Erlach in 1236 and the Knights Hospitaller Thunstetten Commandery in 1263.

During the Late Middle Ages it was part of the court of Murgeten in Murgenthal and belonged to the Herrschaft of Grünenberg.

Under Bernese control Gondiswil and Melchnau formed a low court in the bailiwick of Aarwangen.

[3] Religiously it was part of the parish of Grossdietwil in Lucerne until the Protestant Reformation.

During the 14th and 15th centuries, this chapel became a pilgrimage site and the headquarters of a regional blacksmiths fellowship.

[3] During the 18th and 19th centuries, linen mills and a wooden shoe factory provided jobs outside of agriculture.

It consists of the village of Gondiswil and the hamlets of Freibach, Brüggenweid, Haltstelle, Staldershaus and Schwendi.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Trefoil issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert and in Chief two Mullets of Five Argent.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (715 or 97.4%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (13 or 1.8%) and English is the third (3 or 0.4%).

In the federal election, a total of 300 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.2%.

In the tertiary sector; 8 or 28.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 14.3% were in a hotel or restaurant and 8 or 28.6% were in education.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 40 or 5.4% were Roman Catholic, while 645 or 87.9% 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.

[17] During the 2009–10 school year, there were a total of 67 students attending classes in Gondiswil.