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Muttenz
Municipality in Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Muttenz

Muttenz is a municipality with a population of about 17,000 in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

It is in the district of Arlesheim, next to the city of Basel.

How locals move

Getting around Muttenz 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).

From Wikivoyage: Basel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Achilaos (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.