page_title: Trub
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Trub / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kröschenbrunnen railway bridge, municipality of Trub, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Fervojoponto de Kröschenbrunnen, komunumo Trub, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Eisenbahnbrücke bei Kröschenbrunnen (Gemeinde Trub), Kanton Bern, Schweiz (die Brücke steht rechts der Wigger und somit auf dem ehemaligen Gemeindegebiet von Escholzmatt)
context_page_description: Trub is one of the largest municipalities of Switzerland in size, but not in population. It is located in the Emmental region of the canton of Bern in the administrative district of Emmental.
context_section_description: Trub is first mentioned in 1139 as Truoba.  Around 1258 it was mentioned as Trouba.
  Much of the early history of Trub is tied to the Benedictine Trub Abbey, which ruled over much of the modern municipality.  The inhabitants of the village were ruled from the Abbey and were partly under ecclesiastical law, though the high court was under the secular Kyburgs.  In 1408 Bern acquired the remaining Kyburg lands including the high court rights in Trub.  During the early 15th century the population of the village dropped and many of the outlying farms were abandoned.  As the population recovered in the second half of that century, many alpine meadows and small settlements were once opened up.
  In 1528, Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all monasteries, including Trub.  The land and lower courts in Trub came under Bernese control.  The monastery church has always been the village church.  It was converted into a Protestant church and the patronage rights passed to Bern.  The original church was probably a Romanesque building.  It was replaced with the current building in 1641-45, though some of the walls come from the earlier building.
  Following the Protestant Reformation, a number of Anabaptists settled in Trub, which caused problems with the government in Bern.  In 1532, the village was ordered to drive out all its Anabaptists, though many remained.  Over the following centuries, until 1742 when it was finally no longer illegal, Anabaptist hunters would occasionally visit Trub to attempt to capture them.  Several homes in the community, including the house at Hintere Hütte nr. 239, had special hidden rooms that the Anabaptists could hide in to avoid the hunters.
  Following the 1798 French invasion, Trub became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Oberemmental.  Five years later, following the collapse of the Republic and 1803 Act of Mediation, it was transferred to the Oberamt Signau.
  In the 16th century dairy and cheese production became a major part of the local economy.  Bernese patricians gradually bought up all the high alpine meadows, which they then leased back to the local dairy farmers.  The valley floors were used to raise hay for the cattle when they were brought back down to spend winters on the valley floor.  As the population grew and agriculture became more regulated and less labor-intensive, many residents were forced to emigrate beginning in the 18th century.  Despite emigration, many residents lived in poverty and in 1810 a hospital for the poor opened in Trub.  So many citizens emigrated that today 1 in 147 Swiss can trace their roots back to Trub.  The construction of various valley roads between 1832 and 1860 as well as the construction of a train station of the Bern-Lucerne Railroad in Trubschachen in 1875 helped open up the village to industry.  The economy shifted from agriculture to processing wood, building automotive parts, transporting goods and the services industry.  In 2010 the municipality had two school houses in Trub and Fankhaus.
caption: Kröschenbrunnen railway bridge.  The railroad helped open Trub up to industry in the 19th century
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