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Ostermundigen

Ostermundigen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Ostermundigen
Ostermundigen · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ostermundigen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ostermundigen

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.

  1. 01
    Stadion Wankdorf

    Wankdorf Stadium is a football stadium in Bern, Switzerland. The second largest all-seater football stadium in Switzerland, it is the home ground of BSC Young Boys.

    2 km · association football stadium in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Federal Palace of Switzerland

    The Federal Palace is a building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly and the Federal Council. It is the seat of the government of Switzerland and parliament of the country.

    3.6 km · federal building in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Swiss National Library

    The Swiss National Library is the national library of Switzerland. Part of the Federal Office of Culture, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields, disciplines, and media connected with Switzerland, as well as ensuring the widest possible accessibility and dissemination of such data.

    3.4 km · national library of Switzerland, based in Bern · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old City of Bern

    The Old City is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. Built on a narrow hill bordered on three sides by the river Aare, its compact layout has remained essentially unchanged since its construction during the twelfth to the fifteenth century.

    3.1 km · old town of Bern, Switzerland and UNESCO World Heritage Site · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Zytglogge

    The Zytglogge is a landmark medieval tower in Bern, Switzerland. Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial.

    3.3 km · medieval clock tower with astronomical clock and carillon in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bern Minster

    Bern Minster is a Swiss Reformed cathedral in the old city of Bern, Switzerland. Built in the Gothic style, its construction started in 1421.

    3 km · church building in the old city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kunstmuseum Bern

    The Museum of Fine Arts Bern, established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the de facto capital of Switzerland.

    3.5 km · museum in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Zentrum Paul Klee

    The Zentrum Paul Klee is a museum dedicated to the artist Paul Klee, located in Bern, Switzerland, and designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It features about 40 percent of Paul Klee's entire pictorial oeuvre.

    1.3 km · museum collection in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    PostFinance Arena

    The PostFinance Arena is an indoor arena in Bern, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of SC Bern.

    1.6 km · ice sport arena in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Historical Museum of Bern

    The Bern Historical Museum is the second largest historical museum in Switzerland. It was designed by the Neuchâtel architect André Lambert and built in 1894.

    3.3 km · building of the historical museum in the city of Bern, 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.

Go there

Getting to Ostermundigen

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 72 km · Zürich (ZRH), 98 km · Geneva (GVA), 132 km
Stations
Bern railway station, 3.9 km · Gümligen railway station, 2.6 km
  • Zurich → Ostermundigen
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · CHF13–17
  • Geneva → Ostermundigen
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · CHF17–22
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Ostermundigen
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ostermundigen

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAll hotel bookings in Bern include the “Bern-Ticket", which allows the free use of public transport within the city (zones 100 and 101) for the duration of the stay, including the Gurten funicular and transfer from and to the airport.
  • Go nextYou can make day trips to beautiful locations like Spiez, Thun, Interlaken, Grindelwald and all the way up the Jungfrau to Jungfraujoch.
  • Go nextOther pleasant day trips are to Biel, Fribourg, Gstaad, Murten, Neuchatel and Solothurn.
  • Go nextGeneva, Basel and Zurich can easily be done as day trips but deserve a longer stay.

From Wikivoyage: Bern, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    106 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    359 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    725 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    765 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    823 km

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

Around it

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