Binzen
Binzen is a municipality in the southwestern German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, part of the district Lörrach.
Binzen is a municipality in the southwestern German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, part of the district Lörrach. The town's coat of arms was granted on 29 August 1967. The blazon of the arms is Azure a Garb Or on a Chief Gules a Rising Sun in Splendour Or. The town is the seat of the municipal administrative association Vorderes Kandertal.
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Worth seeing in and around Binzen
9 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.
- 01Vitra Design Museum
The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany, near Basel, Switzerland. The museum building is by Frank Gehry.
3.2 km · museum in Weil am Rhein · Wikipedia - 02Rötteln Castle
Rötteln Castle, located above the Lörrach suburb of Haagen, lies in the extreme southwest corner of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, just 10 kilometres north-east of the Swiss City of Basel. The fortification was one of the most powerful in the southwest, and today, it is the third largest castle ruin in Baden.
3.4 km · castle ruins in Lörrach, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Vitra Fire Station
The Vitra Fire Station is a concrete and steel building of 852 m2 located at the Vitra Furniture factory in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Completed in 1993, it was the first constructed project by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.
3.5 km · building in Weil am Rhein, Freiburg Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Grüttpark Lörrach
The Grütt Landscape Park is a 51-hectare green space in Lörrach. In 1983, the Landesgartenschau took place on the newly designed site.
3.5 km · park in Lörrach, Germany · Wikipedia - 05Lörrach sculpture path
The Lörrach Sculpture Path is a Sculpture trail of 23 works and fountains through the southern German city of Lörrach. In 1986 extensive urban planning changes were made in the city.
3.5 km · sculpture trail in Lörrach, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Vitra Slide Tower
The Vitra Slide Tower is a 30.74 meter high observation tower located in the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It was inaugurated on 18 June 2014 and was created by the German artist Carsten Höller.
3.3 km · observation tower in Weil am Rhein · Wikipedia - 07Tüllinger Berg
The Tüllinger Berg short form Tüllinger, also known as Tüllinger Hügel in Switzerland, is a partly forested mountain located at an elevation of 460.2 m above sea level.
1.6 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 08Schaudepot
The Vitra Schaudepot is a museum on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and opened in the summer of 2016.
3.5 km · museum on the Vitra Campus · Wikipedia - 09Burgfestspiele Rötteln
Burgfestspiele Rötteln is an open-air theatre in Lörrach performing on Rötteln castle. The festival has been running for over 50 years.
3.4 km · theater · Wikipedia
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Getting to Binzen
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 8 km · Zürich (ZRH), 72 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 101 km
- Stations
- Lörrach central station, 3.7 km · Lörrach Schwarzwaldstraße railway station, 3.8 km · Lörrach Museum/Burghof railway station, 3.8 km · Haltingen railway station, 2.2 km
- Rheinmünster → Binzen128 km · quickest by road, 2h · €15–22
- Friedrichshafen → Binzen140 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · €19–26
- Stuttgart → Binzen172 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €26–36
- 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 Binzen
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 Binzen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBut these are scenic cruises taking 8 days to tour the cities along the way; they're not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundYou can be carried across the Rhine by Fähri, one of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river.
- Go nextThe following destinations are good day trips by train from Basel: Zürich, Bern, Interlaken (see below), Lucerne (see below), Schaffhausen — all in Switzerland, 1–2 hours from the main station (Bahnhof SBB).
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- Fischingenmunicipality in Germany2.7 km
- Rümmingenmunicipality in Germany1.8 km
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