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Eschen

Eschen is a municipality in the north of Liechtenstein.

Eschen
Eschen · Dmitry Makeev
The place

Eschen is a municipality in the north of Liechtenstein. It covers an area of 10.3 km2 (4.0 sq mi), and is one of the five communes in the Unterland electoral district. As of 2024, it has a population of 4,629 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eschen

6 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
    Gampriner Seele

    Gampriner Seele or Gampriner Seelein is the only lake in Liechtenstein. It was created by a flood of the Rhine River with enormous erosion in 1927.

    1.1 km · lake in Liechtenstein, Gampriner Seele, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Eschnerberg

    Eschnerberg, also Eschner Berg and Schellenberg, is a 698-metre high mountain of seven peaks in the Rhine Valley, on the border of Liechtenstein and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is close to Eschen, Hinterschellenberg and Schellenberg – the latter two of which are on its slopes – in Liechtenstein, and Feldkirch in Austria.

    3.1 km · mountain ridge in Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Obere Burg

    Obere Burg, also known colloquially as Burg Neu-Schellenberg, is a castle ruin located in the municipality of Schellenberg, Liechtenstein. It lies at the western edge of Hinterschloss, one of the burroughs in the village of Neu-Schellenberg.

    3.4 km · castle in Liechtenstein · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Freizeitpark Widau

    Freizeitpark Widau is a football stadium in Ruggell, Liechtenstein. It is the home ground of FC Ruggell and has a capacity of 500.

    3.1 km · football stadium in Ruggell, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Medieval castle ruins of Forstegg

    Forstegg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Sennwald of the Canton of St Gallen in Switzerland. It was built around 1200 by the Barons of Sax/Misox, was abandoned in the 19th century and fell into ruin in 1894.

    3.6 km · castle ruins in Salez in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Untere Burg

    Untere Burg, also known colloquially as Burg Alt-Schellenberg, is a castle ruin located in the municipality of Schellenberg, Liechtenstein. It lies at the edge of a local forest, a few hundred metres north of the main road between Vorderer Schellenberg and Mittleler Schellenberg.

    2.7 km · castle ruin located in the municipality of Schellenberg, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Eschen

Airports
Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 51 km · Zürich (ZRH), 78 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 101 km
Stations
Nendeln railway station, 2.6 km · Schaanwald railway station, 3.5 km · Forst Hilti railway station, 4 km · Salez-Sennwald railway station, 3 km
  • Friedrichshafen → Eschen
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · €8–11
  • Zurich → Eschen
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · CHF12–16
  • Memmingen → Eschen
    98 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eschen

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    190 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    344 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    709 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    746 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    762 km

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

Around it

Next door to Eschen

  • Schellenbergmunicipality of Liechtenstein2.2 km
  • Gamprinmunicipality of Liechtenstein600 m
  • Ruggellmunicipality of Liechtenstein3.4 km
  • Maurenmunicipality of Liechtenstein2 km
  • Plankenmunicipality of Liechtenstein3.9 km
  • Bendernhuman settlement900 m