Münsingen

Münsingen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, on the River Aare between the cities of Bern and Thun. The village grew from a Celtic settlement founded around 400 BC, whose residents built about 220 tombs along the Aare in the La Tene period, and a Roman bath house with mosaics of fishes and the god Oceanus stood nearby in the second century. It is first mentioned between 993 and 1010 as Munisingam, later belonged to the Kyburgs and Zähringens and then to the Senn knights, and was sold to a wealthy Bern family in 1377. Münsingen was an important gathering place during the Peasants War. Trimstein merged into it in 2013 and Tägertschi in 2017.