Urtenen-Schönbühl is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

The oldest trace of a settlement in the area are some neolithic artifacts which were discovered at Längenrüpp and Schönbühl.

Its blazon is Argent on a pile enbowed Sable a Latin Cross pattee of the first.

An amelioration project in 1944-46 lowered the river's level and built flood walls to protect the village.

Historically the main road from Bern to the Aargau bypassed the village.

In 1845-48 the Bernstrasse was built through the village, connected Urtenen with Bern and the Aargau.

Urtenen quickly grew from a sleepy agricultural village to a major transport hub.

[3] Population doubled during the 1970s to 1980s period; in 1987 a new municipal center was built between the village of Urtenen and the neighboring former hamlet of Schönbühl.

From that time, there were plans to rename the municipality, now no longer centered on the historical village of Urtenen, to Urtenen-Schönbühl.

It consists of the village of Urtenen, the neighborhood of Schönbühl and part of Krauchthalerbergen.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (4,628 or 87.4%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (139 or 2.6%) and Italian is the third (87 or 1.6%).

In the federal election, a total of 1,719 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 43.0%.

[10] There were 3,147 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.9% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 420 or 35.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 30 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 46 or 3.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 190 or 15.8% were in the information industry, 73 or 6.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 77 or 6.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 49 or 4.1% were in education and 132 or 11.0% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 845 or 16.0% were Roman Catholic, while 3,165 or 59.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

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.

[17] During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 559 students attending classes in Urtenen-Schönbühl.