Meienried is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

On the eastern or Zihl side was Underfar village with a boat landing and a ferry to Safnern.

After the extinction of the Counts, between 1388 and 1393 the entire Herrschaft of Büren, including Meienried, went to Bern.

[3] The Jura water correction of 1868-75 helped protect the village from flooding from the surrounding rivers.

In 1934 the Meienried Nature Preserve was established to help protect the old Zihl water course and the Meienriedloch.

[3] In 2003 the Tümpel bei Alter Aare was designated as part of the Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Areas.

[4] This small village has its own town hall and school district, but most of the residents commute to jobs in Büren or even Bern.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert on a Chief Argent a Rose Gules barbed of the first and seeded Or.

[11] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (55 or 93.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (3 or 5.1%) and Czech is the third (1 or 1.7%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The entire Meienried area is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 3 or 5.1% were Roman Catholic, while 47 or 79.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.