Sutz-Lattrigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

In 2007, the remains of the oldest known building in Switzerland – a pile dwelling dated to 3863 BC – were discovered in the lake near Sutz-Lattrigen.

[3] The shoreline was occupied by a Corded ware culture settlement through the Neolithic and into the Bronze Age.

In 2011 the remains of the settlement was included in an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A number of local patrician families and monastic houses owned land or rights in Sutz and Lattrigen over the following century.

Gradually, the Abbeys of St. Alban in Basel, Frienisberg, Gottstatt and the Münchenbuchsee Commandery acquired most of the land.

However, in 1528, Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all the Abbeys' lands, bringing Sutz and Lattrigen under direct Bernese control.

Following the 1798 French invasion, Sutz-Lattrigen became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Seeland.

[4] The village church of Sutz was first mentioned in 1228, though the romanesque walls indicate that it is older.

The Sutz parish included the villages of Tüscherz and Alfermée (both now part of Twann-Tüscherz) from across the lake.

[4] In the 17th century Bern built a pier and warehouse in Lattrigen, which connected the village to lake trade routes.

The villages of Sutz and Lattrigen shared a school and farm land and gradually grew into a single municipality.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules an Anchor Argent between two Mullets Or in chief.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,064 or 92.4%) as their first language, French is the second most common (53 or 4.6%) and Spanish is the third (9 or 0.8%).

[15] The historical population is given in the following chart:[4][16][17] The Neolithic / Bronze Age lake-side settlement of Sutz-Lattrigen–Rütte and the Von Rütte-Gut are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[19] The Sutz-Lattrigen–Rütte, named after the nearby von Rütte estate, was occupied during the final neolithic period and contains the remains of several settlements and artifacts from the rise of the Corded Ware culture.

Additionally, the only western Swiss lakeside bell beaker pottery was found at the site.

In the tertiary sector; 34 or 25.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 3.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 17 or 12.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 19 or 14.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 5.3% were in education and 16 or 12.0% were in health care.

[27] From the 2000 census[update], 749 or 65.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 179 or 15.6% 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.