Buchholterberg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

By 1257 Graf Ulrich von Buchegg was mentioned as owning some property in the villages.

In 1399, the entire area was acquired by the city of Bern and added to the Röthenbach District.

Originally Buchholterberg, Wachseldorn, Süderen and Bleiken were all combined into the Buchholterberg-third of the parish of Oberdiessbach.

In 1805 parts of Buchholterberg and Wachseldorn-Gützenschwendi merged to form a political municipality and a parish.

However, in 1823, they separated into two political municipalities (Buchholterberg and Wachseldorn), but remained a combined parish under Oberdiessbach.

[3] Traditionally the local residents practiced seasonal alpine herding where they raised cattle in high meadows during the summer and over wintered on the valley floor.

In 1857-68 a road was built linking the municipality with Steffisburg and the rest of the Aare river valley.

In 1990 over half of the residents commuted to jobs in nearby cities and many of the remaining workers were employed in dairy farming.

[5] The municipality is located in the hills north-east of Thun, near Rothachen canyon (Rothachenschlucht).

Obere Allmendgemeinde includes part of Heimenschwand, Zihl and Bätterich.

Untere Allmendgemeinde has the rest of Heimenschwand, Marbach, Schaubhaus, Badhaus, Ibach, Wangelen, Teufenbach, Wyler and Rothachen.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Base vert and overall a Beech tree eradicated Argent and leaved of the second.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,457 or 98.9%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (5 or 0.3%) and French is the third (3 or 0.2%).

[9] There were 730 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.4% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 28 or 21.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 7 or 5.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 6.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 6.1% were in the information industry, 2 or 1.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 23 or 17.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 9.8% were in education and 27 or 20.5% were in health care.

[23] From the 2000 census[update], 1,175 or 79.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 37 or 2.5% were Roman Catholic.

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.

During the same year, the lower secondary schools in neighboring municipalities had a total of 33 students from Bucholterberg.