Municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Grenzach-Wyhlen
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.
How locals move
Getting around Grenzach-Wyhlen the local way
- 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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