Eriswil is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern. Eriswil is first mentioned in 1256 as Erolzwile. Very lit…
Eriswil is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern. Eriswil is first mentioned in 1256 as Erolzwile. Very little is known about the early history of the village. By the High Middle Ages a local noble family, the von Eriswil family, were a Ministerialis family in service to the Counts of Kyburg. However, the family died out in the 14th century. In the last quarter of the 14th century the region was acquired by St. Gallen and incorporated into the Rohrbach district. Over the following century, Bernese expansion brought Rohrbach under Bern's control. In 1504 it bought the entire region and added Eriswil to the Trachselwald bailiwick in the Oberaargau District.
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