Lörrach
Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders.
Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the district seat of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the Milka chocolate factory owned by Mondelez International. The city population has grown over the last century; with only 10,794 in 1905, it has now increased its population to over 50,000.
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Worth seeing in and around Lörrach
10 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.
4 km · museum in Weil am Rhein · Wikipedia - 02Beyeler Foundation
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler, with its museum in Riehen, near Basel, owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection, which is not on public display.
3.4 km · museum collection in Riehen in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03Rötteln 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.
2.4 km · castle ruins in Lörrach, Germany · Wikipedia - 04Vitra 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.
4.3 km · building in Weil am Rhein, Freiburg Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia - 05St. Chrischona
St. Chrischona is a hamlet in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt.
4.9 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 06Inzlingen Castle
Inzlingen Castle, also Reichenstein Castle is a medieval castle surrounded by a moat situated in the village of Inzlingen. Inzlingen is located in the district of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, in the very south-west of Germany just at the Swiss border line near Basel.
4 km · moated castle Inzlingen · Wikipedia - 07Swisscom-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.
5.2 km · tower · Wikipedia - 08Tüllinger 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.
2.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 09Vitra 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.
4.2 km · observation tower in Weil am Rhein · Wikipedia - 10Schaudepot
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.
4.3 km · museum on the Vitra Campus · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Rötteln Castle
From Wikivoyage: Lörrach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Go for a walk through the foothills of the Black Forest, which surrounds the town.
From Wikivoyage: Lörrach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Gasthaus zum Kranz
Known for seasonal dishes, like asparagus or venison, and regional wines.
- 02Brauhaus Lasser
A classic German beer garden and restaurant belonging to the local Lasser brewery.
From Wikivoyage: Lörrach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Lörrach
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 11 km · Zürich (ZRH), 68 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 103 km
- Stations
- Lörrach central station, 300 m · Weil am Rhein railway station, 5 km · Lörrach-Stetten railway station, 1.8 km · Lörrach Museum/Burghof railway station, 1.1 km · Lörrach Schwarzwaldstraße railway station, 1 km
- Rheinmünster → Lörrach130 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · €16–22
- Friedrichshafen → Lörrach136 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · €19–26
- Stuttgart → Lörrach171 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €26–37
- 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 Lörrach
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 Lörrach. 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 Lörrach
- Weil am Rheinmunicipality in Germany4.8 km
- Riehenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland4.2 km
- Wittlingenmunicipality in Germany4.5 km
- Eimeldingenmunicipality in Germany5.6 km
- Binzenmunicipality in Germany3.6 km
- Inzlingenmunicipality in Germany3.8 km