page_title: Niedermuhlern
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Niedermuhlern / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Niedermuhlern im Winter
context_page_description: Niedermuhlern is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Niedermuhlern has an area of 7.26 km² (2.80 sq mi). As of 2012, a total of 5.46 km² (2.11 sq mi) or 75.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.3 km² (0.50 sq mi) or 17.9% is forested. The rest of the municipality is 0.44 km² (0.17 sq mi) or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads).
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 2.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. A total of 14.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 40.6% is used for growing crops and 33.8% is pasturage.
  The municipality is located on a plateau of Längenberg mountain. It includes the village of Niedermuhlern, the hamlets of Ober- and Niederblacken, Bachmühle, Fallenbach and individual houses.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Seftigen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.
caption: Looking south over Niedermuhlern village toward the Alps
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