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

Ausserbirrmoos was the largest in land area of the three communities that formed Linden.

It absorbed the land and population of the communities of Schöntal (BE) and Barschwand when they dissolved in 1887.

For much of its history, the established farmers and the landless sharecroppers fought each other over usage of the commons.

Finally, over a decade starting 1778, the city of Bern intervened and ended the conflict.

Like Innerbirrmoos, around 1399 it became part of the Bernese district of Röthenbach and in 1529 the Landvogtei of Signau.

Beginning in the 1970s, a training base for the Swiss Army opened in the community.

It formed from the merger of the formerly independent municipalities of Ausserbirrmoos, Innerbirrmoos and Otterbach in 1945.

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

[9] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent on a Linden Tree Vert trunked proper issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux of the second three Mullets Or.

[12] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,262 or 96.6%) as their first language, French is the second most common (25 or 1.9%) and English is the third (3 or 0.2%).

In the federal election, a total of 511 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.7%.

[12] There were 653 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 126 of which 66 or (52.4%) were in manufacturing, 16 or (12.7%) were in mining and 44 (34.9%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 38 or 23.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 1.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 7.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 14 or 8.6% were in education and 8 or 4.9% were in health care.

[12] From the 2000 census[update], 1,009 or 77.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 40 or 3.1% 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.

[20] During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 128 students attending classes in Linden.