Schalunen 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 Schalunen, Büren zum Hof , Etzelkofen , Grafenried, Limpach, Mülchi and Zauggenried merged into the municipality of Fraubrunnen.

Schalunen is first mentioned in 1249 as Chaluna.

The oldest trace of a settlement in the area is a massive La Tène golden bracelet which was discovered north of the village in 1864. During the Late Middle Ages the village was owned by Fraubrunnen Abbey . After the Abbey was secularized during the Protestant Reformation, Schalunen village became part of the Bernese bailiwick of Fraubrunnen.