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Zollikofen

Zollikofen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Zollikofen
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The place

Zollikofen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a suburb of the city of Bern and is home to the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zollikofen

6 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
    Moossee

    Moossee is a lake in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its surface area is 31 ha.

    3.4 km · lake in canton of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bern Switzerland Temple

    The Bern Switzerland Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland. It was the church's first temple in Europe and the second outside of North America, after the Laie Hawaii Temple.

    600 m · temple of the Latter Day Saints in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Neubrügg

    The Neubrügg or Neubrücke is a covered wooden bridge over the river Aare between the village of Kirchlindach and Bern in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.4 km · Aare bridge between Kirchlindach and Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hofwil institute building

    Hofwil is a village in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, part of the municipality of Münchenbuchsee. The village of Hofwil was originally part of the lands owned by the Münchenbuchsee Commandery, a medieval commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in nearby Münchenbuchsee.

    2.4 km · building complex in Münchenbuchsee in the canton of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hofwil castle and institute buildings

    Hofwil Castle is a castle in the municipality of Münchenbuchsee of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.5 km · château building with outbuildings in Münchenbuchsee in the canton of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Reichenbach Castle

    Reichenbach castle is located in Zollikofen, about 5 kilometres north of Bern. The castle was founded as a medieval fort, probably built on the site of an earlier Roman fort, on the river Aar.

    1 km · castle in Zollikofen in the canton 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 Zollikofen

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 67 km · Zürich (ZRH), 97 km · Geneva (GVA), 133 km
Stations
Zollikofen railway station, 1 km · Bern Wankdorf railway station, 3.8 km · Münchenbuchsee railway station, 2.4 km · Moosseedorf railway station, 3.2 km · Bern Felsenau railway station, 3.5 km
  • Zurich → Zollikofen
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · CHF12–16
  • Geneva → Zollikofen
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · CHF17–22
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Zollikofen
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Zollikofen

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 Zollikofen. 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

    111 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    365 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    719 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    760 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    828 km

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

Around it

Next door to Zollikofen

  • Ittigenmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland3.3 km
  • Bremgarten bei Bernmunicipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland2.9 km
  • Münchenbuchseemunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland1.8 km
  • Kirchlindachmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland2.9 km
  • Moosseedorfmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland3.1 km
  • Wiggiswilmunicipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland3.6 km