Grenzach-Wyhlen
Grenzach-Wyhlen is a municipality of 15,000 people in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Grenzach-Wyhlen is a municipality of 15,000 people in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It sits on the right bank of the Rhine abutting the Swiss municipalities of Riehen and Bettingen in the Kanton of Basel-Stadt, the German municipality of Inzlingen and the German town of Rheinfelden. Its town hall is 6.5 km east of that of Basel and 8 km south of that of Lörrach.
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Worth seeing in and around Grenzach-Wyhlen
4 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.
- 01University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland is a university of applied sciences in Switzerland. It is one of the largest universities in the country in terms of student enrollment.
2.8 km · Swiss university of applied sciences · Wikipedia - 02Fortified Church of St. Arbogast
The Fortified Church of St. Arbogast (German: Wehrkirche St.
3.4 km · church building in Muttenz in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03St. Chrischona
St. Chrischona is a hamlet in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt.
3.2 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Swisscom-Sendeturm St. Chrischona
Swisscom-Sendeturm St. Chrischona is a communications tower built in 1980–1984 near Basel, Switzerland, on the territory of the municipality Bettingen, Basel-Stadt.
3.1 km · tower · Wikipedia
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Getting to Grenzach-Wyhlen
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 13 km · Zürich (ZRH), 66 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 111 km
- Stations
- Pratteln railway station, 2.7 km · Muttenz railway station, 2.5 km · Pratteln Salina Raurica station, 3 km · Kaiseraugst railway station, 3.7 km · Wyhlen railway station, 1.1 km
- Friedrichshafen → Grenzach-Wyhlen135 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · €18–25
- Rheinmünster → Grenzach-Wyhlen136 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €16–23
- Stuttgart → Grenzach-Wyhlen176 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · €27–38
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No local-transport research exists yet for Grenzach-Wyhlen
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 Grenzach-Wyhlen. 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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Next door to Grenzach-Wyhlen
- Muttenzmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.4 km
- Prattelnmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.2 km
- Augstmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.6 km
- Kaiseraugstmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland3.9 km
- Bettingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland3 km