Riehen
Riehen is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland.
Riehen is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton.
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Worth seeing in and around Riehen
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.
3.4 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.
800 m · museum collection in Riehen in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03Museum Tinguely
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland, devoted to the work of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. The building was designed by architect Mario Botta and opened in 1996 beside the Rhine.
3.7 km · museum in Basel (Switzerland) · Wikipedia - 04Stadion Rankhof
Stadion Rankhof is a football stadium in Basel, Switzerland. It has a capacity of 7,600 with 1,000 seats and 6,600 standing places.
3.1 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 05Roche Tower
Roche Tower, also known as Building 1, is an office skyscraper in the Swiss city of Basel. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron for the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche, it stands 178 metres tall with 41 floors.
4 km · skyscraper in Basel · Wikipedia - 06Basel Institute for Immunology
The Basel Institute for Immunology was an international research institute devoted to fundamental studies in immunology, located in Basel, Switzerland. Founded in 1969 by F. Hoffmann–La Roche and directed by Niels K. Jerne, it became one of the most influential centres of immunological research in the 20th century.
2.6 km · basic research institute in immunology · Wikipedia - 07Roche Tower 2
Roche Tower 2 is an office skyscraper in Basel, Switzerland. At 205 metres, it became the tallest building in Switzerland upon its opening on 2 September 2022, surpassing its sibling structure, Roche Tower.
3.9 km · skyscraper in Basel · Wikipedia - 08St. Chrischona
St. Chrischona is a hamlet in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt.
2.5 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09Vitra 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.
3.4 km · building in Weil am Rhein, Freiburg Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany · Wikipedia - 10Swisscom-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 km · tower · Wikipedia
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Getting to Riehen
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 10 km · Zürich (ZRH), 69 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 107 km
- Stations
- Basel Badischer Bahnhof railway station, 3.5 km · Lörrach central station, 3.9 km · Weil am Rhein railway station, 3.4 km · Lörrach-Stetten railway station, 2.4 km · Lörrach Museum/Burghof railway station, 3.2 km
- Zurich → Riehen72 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · CHF9–12
- Geneva → Riehen191 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · CHF26–35
- Strasbourg → Riehen112 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €15–20
- 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 Riehen
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 Riehen. 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 Riehen
- Lörrachcity in southwest Germany4 km
- Weil am Rheinmunicipality in Germany3.3 km
- Grenzach-Wyhlenmunicipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany3.3 km
- Birsfeldenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.6 km
- Inzlingenmunicipality in Germany3.4 km
- Bettingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland1.6 km