Kandergrund (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈkandərˌɡrʊnd]) is a municipality in the Frutigen -Niedersimmental administrative district in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland .

The area may have been lightly inhabited during the Bronze Age, however the earliest documented settlement was around the Castle (now ruins) Felsenburg. Kandergrund, together with Kandersteg , is first mentioned in 1352 as der Kandergrund.

During the Middle Ages, Kandergrund was politically and religiously part of Frutigen. In 1850, it was separated and became an independent municipality, consisting of Ausserrüteni, Innerrüteni, Kandergrund, Mitholz, Kandersteg and Gastern. In 1850 a church was built in Bunderbach, and ten years later that church became the parish church of Kandergrund parish.