Gäu District
Gäu District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated in the centre of the canton.

Gäu District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated in the centre of the canton. It has a population of 22,005. Together with Thal District, it forms the Amtei of Thal-Gäu.
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Worth seeing in and around Gäu District
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.
- 01Neu Bechburg
Neu Bechburg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Oensingen of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
800 m · castle in Oensingen in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Neu-Falkenstein Castle
Neu-Falkenstein Castle is a castle in the municipality of Balsthal of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
3.8 km · castle ruins near Balsthal (Klus) in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gäu District
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 38 km · Zürich (ZRH), 66 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 139 km
- Stations
- Oensingen railway station, 500 m · Niederbipp railway station, 2.5 km
- Strasbourg → Gäu District201 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · €27–38
- Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Gäu District207 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €30–42
- Clermont-Ferrand → Gäu District342 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · €47–65
- 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 Gäu District
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 Gäu District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Gäu District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gäu District
- Balsthalmunicipality in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland3.4 km
- Kestenholzmunicipality in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland3.1 km
- Niederbippmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland2.9 km
- Thal Districtdistrict of the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland3.4 km