Oberlangenegg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
[3] The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a Bronze Age dagger which was discovered in the Lindenmoos.
The village of Schwarzenegg, located on the border with Unterlangenegg, was more densely populated and was an economic and religious center of the Zulg valley.
Schwarzenegg was located on the Steffisburg-Oberemmental road and in 1693 a large parish church was built to help curb the growing popularity of the Anabaptist faith in the region.
[4] Today the municipality is still mostly agrarian and rural with over half of the local jobs in agriculture.
[6] The municipality is located in the Zulg river valley on the western slope and foot hills of the Honegg mountain.
It consists of two clusters of settlements, the outer with Stalden and part of the village of Schwarzenegg (shared with Unterlangenegg) and the inner with Kreuzweg, Aettenbühl and Süderen-Linden.
[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Fir Tree Vert between a Buck and a Doe Gules statant on Base of the second.
[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (472 or 97.9%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (5 or 1.0%) and French is the third (3 or 0.6%).
In the tertiary sector; 4 or 11.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 8.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 37.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 5.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 4 or 11.4% were in education and 4 or 11.4% were in health care.
[24] From the 2000 census[update], 439 or 91.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 6 or 1.2% 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.
[25] During the 2012-13 school year, there were a total of 51 students attending classes in Oberlangenegg.
There were a total of 12 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality.
During the same year, the lower secondary schools in neighboring municipalities had a total of 11 students from Oberlangenegg.