Ittigen

Ittigen is a municipality of about 11,400 inhabitants in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It was formed in 1983 when it and Ostermundigen were separated from territory once part of Bolligen. Its name derives from the Alemannic German for at the people of the Ito and first appeared in print in 1318 as Yttigen; in 1326 it was mentioned as villa de Ittigen. Traces of prehistoric settlement have been found at Worblaufen, including a La Tène vessel with cremated remains, Roman coins and Early Medieval graves, in the Papiermühle neighbourhood, where an Early Medieval cemetery of about 30 graves from the 5th or 6th century lies, at Neuhaus and at Wydacker. The small hamlets of Papiermühle, Schermen, Neuhaus and Badhaus developed on the valley floor, while the farming villages of Ittigen and Worblaufen grew up on terraces in the low mountains above the valley.