Münchringen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland . On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Münchringen and Scheunen merged into the municipality of Jegenstorf .

Münchringen is first mentioned around 1261–63 as Munderchingen. The Holzmühle settlement was first mentioned in 1271.

The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a cluster of Hallstatt era grave mounds at Hursch and Waldäcker. By the 13th century Münchringen and Holzmühle were both owned by the Counts of Kyburg and were part of the Kyburg low court in Alchenflüh.