Krattigen is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The earliest trace of a settlement in the area is a Late Bronze Age axe which was discovered at Krattigengraben.

After the regicide of King Albert I of Germany by his nephew John Parricida in 1308, the Austrian Habsburgs advanced a claim on Krattigen.

The Bernese Scharnachtal family began buying the rights to the area in 1366 and in 1483 they finally owned the entire village.

Traditionally the local economy was based on agriculture and seasonal alpine herding.

Small businesses and tourism began to make inroads into the village during the 20th century.

It includes the villages of Krattigen, Stuhlegg, Örtlimatt and scattered individual farms.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (838 or 95.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (16 or 1.8%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (8 or 0.9%).

In the federal election, a total of 442 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.4%.

[10] There were 396 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.7% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 22, of which 18 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 5 or 3.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 52 or 39.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 20 or 15.2% were in the information industry, 5 or 3.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 3.8% were in education and 37 or 28.0% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 76 or 8.6% were Roman Catholic, while 605 or 68.6% 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 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 64 students attending classes in Krattigen.