page_title: Boltigen
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Boltigen / Religion
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue de l'église de Boltigen (Simmental)
context_page_description: Boltigen is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
  Boltigen is a mixed community, with traits both of a burgese community and a village community. Beside it, there is also a reformed evangelical Church community. The history of the community goes back to 1386 and the so-called Freiheitsbrief von 1386.
  The community president is Hermann Maurer, since 1 January 2005.
context_section_description: From the 2000 census, 1,276 or 88.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 39 or 2.7% were Roman Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, there were 5 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.35% of the population), and there were 23 individuals (or about 1.60% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 33 (or about 2.30% of the population) who were Muslim.  There were 3 individuals who were Buddhist.  26 (or about 1.81% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 31 individuals (or about 2.16% of the population) did not answer the question.
caption: Boltigen village church
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