Uebeschi is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Uebeschi is first mentioned in 1233 as Ibisshe. The oldest traces of settlements in the area come from scattered neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts. Part of a wall, ceramic floor tiles, a stone path and coins have been found from the Roman era, indicating that there was a small settlement in the area. During the Middle Ages the village was part of the court and parish of Thierachern in the Strättligen Herrschaft. While there is a Ministerialis (unfree knights in the service of a feudal overlord) family von Uebeschi, there are no records that connect them to the village. In 1417 the village was donated to the mendicant Franciscan friars in Bern. In 1528 Bern adopted the new faith of the Protestant Reformation and secularized all the property of the friars. Under Bernese rule, Uebeschi became part of the low court of Amsoldingen in the district of Thun. Traditionally the village economy relied on farming and raising cattle. Today, agriculture remains important but about half of the working population commutes to jobs in Bern, Thun or other nearby towns. Geography Uebeschi has an area of . As of the 2004 survey, a total of or 89.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 2.5% is forested. Of rest of the municipality or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land. Between the 1981 and 2004 surveys the settled area increased from to , an increase of 39.13%. From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 4.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. A total of 1.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.0% is used for growing crops and 43.0% is pasturage, while 3.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. It lies some to the southwest of the district capital Thun. It is located in the drumlin landscape between the Stocken valley and Aare valley. It consists of the village of Uebeschi, the hamlet of Kärselen and scattered farmhouses. Lake Uebeschi after which the village is named lies several hundred meters to the south, however a greater part of it belongs to the