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

However, a decade later, in 1341 he gave the village and all rights to St. Urban's Abbey.

[3] During the 19th century an iron works opened in the nearby village of Gerlafingen.

In 1813, the Emme canal connected the municipalities and Zielebach began to support the factory at Gerlafingen.

[5] The municipality is located on the border with the Canton of Solothurn near the Emme river.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Fraubrunnen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert triple Bar wavy Argent lined Sable.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (325 or 98.2%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (4 or 1.2%) and Polish is the third (1 or 0.3%).

In the federal election, a total of 107 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.1%.

[10] There were 183 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.2% of the workforce.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 31 or 9.4% were Roman Catholic, while 245 or 74.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.