Jegenstorf is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[5] The earliest trace of human settlements in the area are several Hallstatt burial mounds which were found on the border with Münchringen.

The remains of a Gallo-Roman estate, including a wall, parts of pillars, bricks and ceramics, have been discovered near the village church.

[5] During the Middle Ages the village was held by the Zähringen Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family of Jegenstorf.

Under Bernese rule, the court continued to be held in front of the Gasthof or Inn.

In 1300, the Jegenstorf family died out and the remainder of the village passed into other nobles' possession.

The Erlachs continued to gain power and in the 15th century acquired the castle, the entire village and the courts.

Karl Ludwig von Erlach sold the castle and estate in 1758, but kept the right to rule over the village.

They held the rulership over the village until the 1798 French invasion when it transferred to the Canton of Bern.

[5] During the Swiss peasant war of 1653, the residents of Jegenstorfer attacked and plundered the castle.

[5] In 1720 Albrecht Friedrich von Erlach had the castle rebuilt into a baroque country house.

It included the municipalities of Ballmoos, Iffwil, Jegenstorf, Münchringen, Oberscheunen, Zauggenried, Zuzwil, Mattstetten and Urtenen-Schönbühl.

[5] In Jegenstorf during the Early Modern era, as in many other Swiss villages, a minority of large landowners held all the power.

In 1802 about 18% of the population were large landowners, but they controlled virtually all leadership positions in the village.

The small farmers, about 9%, and the Tauner or disenfranchised common laborers, 73% of the population, had no voice in government.

While Jegenstorf was located on the old Bern-Solothurn road, the new railroads and highways bypassed the municipality.

A local narrow gauge railway was built to the village in 1916, but it remained under utilized until the 1960s when the growth of the agglomeration of Bern made Jegenstorf attractive to commuters.

[6] The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a cluster of Hallstatt era grave mounds at Hursch and Waldäcker.

[6] In 1944-46, levees and canals helped control the Urtenen river and prevent periodic flooding.

The completion of a highway on the municipal border in 1965 encouraged population and industrial growth in Münchringen.

[7] The oldest trace of a settlement in the area are Hallstatt era grave mounds at Steinholz and Junkholz.

The settlements that today make up Scheunen were originally the two independent villages of Oberscheunen and Jegenstorf-Scheunen.

After the extinction of the Kyburg family in 1406, Bern acquired the villages and placed them under the court at Zollikofen.

Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by 7 ha (17 acres) and is now about 0.96% of the total area.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (3,741 or 93.5%) as their first language, French is the second most common (45 or 1.1%) and Albanian is the third (43 or 1.1%).

[25] From the 2000 census[update], 537 or 13.4% were Roman Catholic, while 2,775 or 69.4% 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.