Next station is the "Anabaptist Trail" in and around Sumiswald in the Emmental region. Here's the link to an English pamphlet about the trail.
https://www.sumiswald.ch/wAssets/docs/t ... glisch.pdf
I walked it end of May of this year on a beautiful day. It is actually a circular path but we only did a bit more than half of it. We started at the Haslibacher homestead, home of the last anabaptist martyr in the canton of Berne, Hans Haslibacher. He was killed by the government in 1571 for his beliefs. The farm is still inhabited by the descendants of Hans who are not anabaptist, though. They are friendly and have set up a small "museum". It's really a small room only with a few memorabilia.
The "museum" is in that small barn. You got to get the key from the grandparents living in the small "Stöckli", next to the real farm. The cow on the stick is a custom announcing a new born baby. The Haslibacher family is not going to die out anytime soon, we had the chance to meet young baby Ben, the future heir to the farm.
The path goes through green pastures and with magnificent views to the Bernese alps. There are stations with informative plaques along the way. The next monument is the castle of Trachselwald, where anabaptist were imprisoned back in the day. It's a bit touristy (although we were alone to visit it on that day) with a prison chamber you can attach yourself to chains and listen to the Haslibacher Lied. The wood in the tower is carved over and over with names of anabaptist tourists from all over the world.
You then continue to the village of Sumiswald where a memorial plaque remembers the anabaptist martyrs who died there for their faith with Hans Haslibacher being the last.
