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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
Gäu District · Benjamin Smith
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Neu 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
  2. 02
    Neu-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

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.

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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 District
    201 km · quickest by road, 4h 2m · €27–38
  • Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Gäu District
    207 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €30–42
  • Clermont-Ferrand → Gäu District
    342 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · €47–65
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    384 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    693 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    758 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    827 km

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

Around it

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