Aesch
Aesch is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Aesch is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Until 2001 it was known as Aesch bei Birmensdorf.
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Worth seeing in and around Aesch
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is a research organisation specialising in on forests, landscapes, biodiversity, natural hazards, snow and ice. As of the end of 2024, WSL employed approximately 650 people.
3.4 km · Swiss federal research institute · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aesch
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 16 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 75 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 89 km
- Stations
- Birmensdorf railway station, 2.7 km · Bonstetten-Wettswil railway station, 2.8 km · Hedingen railway station, 4 km
- Geneva → Aesch179 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · CHF26–35
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Aesch16 km · quickest by road, 43 min · €2–3
- Friedrichshafen → Aesch72 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · €14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aesch
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aesch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.
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Next door to Aesch
Aesch is 10 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Arnimunicipality in the canton Aargau, Switzerland1.8 km
- Oberwil-Lielimunicipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland3.8 km
- Oberlunkhofenmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland3.6 km
- Birmensdorfmunicipality in Switzerland2.3 km
- Bonstettenmunicipality in Switzerland3.3 km
- Wettswil am Albismunicipality in Switzerland3.2 km