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

While the current municipality is relatively new, Konolfingen village was an important local administrative center.

Under the Counts of Kyburg and later the city of Bern, Konolfingen was the center of a district, the home of the high court and the execution grounds.

Originally the town was owned by the Lords of Krauchtal, but in either 1397 or 1424, they donated Konolfingen to Thorberg Abbey.

It became part of the bailiwick of Thorberg and was combined with Walkringen to form a single court.

A filial church was built in Konolfingen in 1898 and in 1911, the villages broke away to form the parish of Stalden.

Between 1851 and 1856 the village of Stalden grew in an important stopping place on the Aare valley-Emmental and Burgdorf-Thun roads.

In 1864, the Bern-Langnau railroad built a station in the land between Konolfingen and Stalden.

The convenient transportation links encouraged the Berneralpen dairy to build a factory between the two villages.

Of the rest of the land, 1.85 km2 (0.71 sq mi) or 14.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.

[5] Lying at an altitude of over 650 meters (2,130 ft), Konolfingen is often referred to as the "gateway to the Emmental."

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Semi Lion Rampant double-tailed Gules issuant from three bricked Wall Sable and in chief two Mullets of the second.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (4,281 or 92.9%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (62 or 1.3%) and Albanian is the third (44 or 1.0%).

In the federal election, a total of 1,961 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.4%.

In the tertiary sector; 275 or 24.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 42 or 3.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 108 or 9.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 67 or 6.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 351 or 31.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 52 or 4.7% were in education and 130 or 11.8% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 3,440 or 74.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 458 or 9.9% 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.