Benken

Worth seeing in and around Benken

2 places 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.

1. 01
   Laufen Castle

   Laufen Castle is a castle in the municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance overlooking the Rhine Falls.

   4 km · castle in Laufen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cholfirst Radio Tower

   Cholfirst Radio Tower is a 96-metre-tall lattice tower on Cholfirst Mountain at Flurlingen, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The tower was built in 1973 by PTT on Cholfirst Mountain, a 570-metre mountain near Flurlingen after 3 years of successful operation of an experimental TV transmitter on channel 47 on a 40-metre-tall tower nearby.

   3.5 km · radio tower in Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Benken

Airports

Zürich (ZRH), 23 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 65 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 85 km

Stations

Langwiesen railway station, 3.8 km · Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall, 4 km · Dachsen railway station, 3.2 km · Marthalen railway station, 2.1 km

• Geneva → Benken

  245 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · CHF34–46
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• Friedrichshafen → Benken

  61 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–20
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Benken

  120 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €15–21
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No local-transport research exists yet for Benken

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 Benken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Benken – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.