Hofwil is a village in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, part of the municipality of Münchenbuchsee.
[2] The Hofwil Institution was built by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, a Bernese patrician.
[1] The Hofwil Institution building was built in 1817-21 as a center piece of Emanuel von Fellenberg's educational vision.
[1] The Canton of Bern bought the building in 1884 to house the expansion of the teachers' college, which had been founded in 1833 in Münchenbuchsee.
The entire area around Hofwil is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.