Utzenstorf is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

The Bürglenhubel site includes traces of an earthen wall, turf houses and flint tools.

There are several other prehistoric sites in the municipality, including scatter neolithic items at Lindenrain and a La Tene culture grave at Schnäggefeld.

[3] When the area was part of the Kingdom of Burgundy, the county of Uranestorfus was mentioned in a record from 1009.

Under the Dukes of Zähringen Landshut Castle was the administrative center of the Amt or township of Utzenstorf.

It was acquired by Rudolf von Ringoltingen from Bern, who combined several estates into the Amt.

In 1804 the father of the future novelist Albert Bitzius, who would be better known by his pen name Jeremias Gotthelf, became the pastor at Utzenstorf.

During the 16th century, Utzenstorf began to expand, causing border conflicts and disagreements with neighboring municipalities.

The line connected the municipality to rest of the country and allowed industry to move into the area.

The Swiss Central Airport Utzenstorf - German Schweizerischer Zentralflughafen Utzenstorf (47°06′39″N 7°34′15″E / 47.1109°N 7.5708°E / 47.1109; 7.5708) - was a project for an intercontinental airport, located about 23 kilometers north of Bern and about 10 kilometers south of Solothurn.

The proposal to build an international airport along the banks of Emme river in 1945 failed due to opposition from the residents.

During World War II, the government of the Canton of Bern created a study group to prepare a project.

The obstacle-free area near Utzenstorf was deemed ideal, and the Canton then handed the project over the federal government.

In hindsight, Utzenstorf would have been the better place for a large airport: Today, both a highway and the newly built high-speed railway line Mattstetten-Rothrist would have supplied the airport with both passenger and freight connections.

It consists of the villages of Ober-Utzenstorf and Unter-Utzenstorf, the hamlets of Schachen, Ei and Altwiden, Landshut Castle and other scattered farm houses.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Vert and Argent four Linden Leaves conjoined in saltire counterchanged.

[11] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (3,485 or 95.5%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (25 or 0.7%) and Italian is the third (24 or 0.7%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The neolithic settlement at Bürglenhubel, the Gasthof Bären and Landshut Castle are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire area around Landshut Castle is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the tertiary sector; 267 or 36.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 115 or 15.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 60 or 8.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 28 or 3.8% were in the information industry, 18 or 2.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 50 or 6.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 38 or 5.1% were in education and 84 or 11.4% were in health care.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 397 or 10.9% were Roman Catholic, while 2,769 or 75.9% 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.