The inhabitants of the village were ruled from the Abbey and were partly under ecclesiastical law, though the high court was under the secular Kyburgs.

In 1408 Bern acquired the remaining Kyburg lands including the high court rights in Trub.

During the early 15th century the population of the village dropped and many of the outlying farms were abandoned.

As the population recovered in the second half of that century, many alpine meadows and small settlements were once opened up.

[4] In 1528, Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all monasteries, including Trub.

[4] Following the Protestant Reformation, a number of Anabaptists settled in Trub, which caused problems with the government in Bern.

Over the following centuries, until 1742 when it was finally no longer illegal, Anabaptist hunters would occasionally visit Trub to attempt to capture them.

[5] Following the 1798 French invasion, Trub became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Oberemmental.

Bernese patricians gradually bought up all the high alpine meadows, which they then leased back to the local dairy farmers.

As the population grew and agriculture became more regulated and less labor-intensive, many residents were forced to emigrate beginning in the 18th century.

Despite emigration, many residents lived in poverty and in 1810 a hospital for the poor opened in Trub.

So many citizens emigrated that today 1 in 147 Swiss can trace their roots back to Trub.

The economy shifted from agriculture to processing wood, building automotive parts, transporting goods and the services industry.

[8] The large, mostly rural municipality is located on the southern slopes of the Napf mountain and includes both banks of the Ilfis river.

It consists of the village of Trub, the neighborhoods of Brandösch, Fankhaus, Twären and Gummen, the business development of Kröschenbrunnen as well as scattered farm houses and alpine meadows.

[6] Under Swiss law it includes all individuals who are citizens of the Bürgergemeinde, usually by having inherited the Bürgerrecht (citizenship), regardless of where they were born or where they may currently live.

About 1 in 134 Swiss citizens trace their ancestry back to this community,[6] one of them being the 2002 Nobel Chemistry laureate, Kurt Wüthrich.

The Fankhauser farm house in Trub dates back to 1601 and is the origin of the Fankhauser and Funkhouser families, which have since migrated to Virginia, United States as well as the Frankhouser family in Pennsylvania, United States.

[citation needed] Some of the Amish of the United States emigrated from the Trub region.

[12] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,499 or 99.5%) as their first language, Swedish and Serbo-Croatian both have 2 native speakers.

In the tertiary sector; 16 or 18.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 11 or 12.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 25 or 28.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 7.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 16 or 18.0% were in education and 3 or 3.4% were in health care.

The entire village of Trub is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[26] The house at Hinter Hütten 239 still has an example of a hidden room that was used to hide Anabaptists during the centuries that the government of Bern suppressed and attempted to drive them out.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.