Muri bei Bern

Muri bei Bern is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, lying on the edge of the federal city. It is first mentioned in 1180 as Mure, while the village of Gümligen within it appears in 1239 as Gumelingen. Finds at the Schlosshügel, unearthed in 1832, show that the site was already settled in Roman times. The area belonged to the dominion of Geristein until the city of Bern conquered it in 1298, together with the parishes of Bolligen, Muri, Stettlen and Vechigen, and Bern left the municipalities largely self-governing. Industrialization and the new rail connections of the early twentieth century changed it quickly: the population grew from 2,435 to 3,938 between 1920 and 1930. The municipality covers 7.63 square kilometres and had 13,182 inhabitants at the end of 2020, about 89 percent of them German speaking.