 On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Saanen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Obersimmental-Saanen.The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Gules a Crane rising Argent beaked and membered Or on a Mount of 3 Coupeaux of the second all dimidiated impaled with Azure a Key Or."