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Weil am Rhein
Town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Weil am Rhein

Weil am Rhein is a German town and commune.

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It is on the east bank of the River Rhine, and extends to the tripoint of Switzerland, France, and Germany. It is the most southwesterly town in Germany and a suburb in the Trinational Eurodistrict of Basel. The town has around 30,000 inhabitants, and the Eurodistrict metropolitan area has about 830,000.

Get in

Getting to Weil am Rhein

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    Weil am Rhein

    There is an international tram line from Basel.

See

Worth seeing

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    Vitra Design Museum
Eat

Where to eat

There are many Turkish restaurants / kebab shops in town.

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    Newsad KeinHack Imbiss

    Hauptstraße 387.

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    Chläbi

    Eisenbahnstraße 9.

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    Josefstüble

    Robert-Koch-Straße 1.

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    Gaststätte Alte Zunft

    Rathauspl.

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    Restaurant Peking

    Hauptstraße 384.

How locals move

Getting around Weil am Rhein 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.

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