Saicourt is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

It comprises the localities of Le Fuet, Bellelay, La Bottiere and Montbautier.

However, both Saicourt and Le Fuet belonged to the provost of Moutier-Grandval under the Prince-Bishop of Basel.

After the 1798 French invasion, the Abbey was secularized and Saicourt became an independent political municipality.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Saicourt was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

[3] During the 18th century a number of German speaking Anabaptists settled in the village of Montbautier.

[3] During the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern era most of the local economy was based on the production of Tête de Moine cheese at the Abbey.

Beginning in the 18th century the watchmaking industry and mining silica sand were added.

By the early 20th century watchmaking and sand mining both died out, followed by peat producing in 1945.

It consists of the village of Saicourt and the hamlets of La Bottière and Montbautier.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or on a Pale Gules an Abbot's Crozier of the first issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux vert.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (565 or 84.0%) as their first language, German is the second most common (85 or 12.6%) and Italian is the third (10 or 1.5%).

[15] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][16] The Former Premonstratensian Bellelay Abbey is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire former Abbey complex is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

The monks of the abbey invented the famous cheese “Tête de Moine”.

It was founded in 1891 when the Canton of Bern acquired Bellelay Abbey and converted it into a clinic.

[25] From the 2000 census[update], 377 or 56.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 132 or 19.6% 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.