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Riehen
Basel-City, Switzerland · Europe
About Riehen
Riehen is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Grenzach-Wyhlen, 42km from Feldberg.
Riehen is in Basel-City, Switzerland, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Grenzach-Wyhlen, about 4 km away.
Riehen (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈriːən] ; Swiss German: Rieche) 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.
Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a privately owned art gallery) as well asRead more
a toy museum and several parks.
Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office, in 1958.
The mathematician Leonhard Euler and the tennis player Roger Federer lived in Riehen during their childhood years.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Riehen?
Within an hour or so of Riehen: Basel (5 km), Pantheon Basel (5 km), Basel Zoo (6 km), Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National (Collection Schlumpf) (31 km).
Are there any good drives near Riehen?
The nearest famous roads are Route des Vins d'Alsace, Alsace Wine Route and Circuit Bremgarten.
Where is Riehen?
Riehen is in Basel-City, Switzerland, about 4 km from Grenzach-Wyhlen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 20,000
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Switzerland
- Region
- Basel-City
- Timezone
- Europe/Zurich
- Coordinates
- 47.5788, 7.6468
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Switzerland
Motorway vignette (toll sticker) required: buy at the border or online. Roadside assistance (TCS): 140.
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Worth the detour from Riehen
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Pantheon Basel
Striking rotunda in Muttenz where a spiral ramp climbs past decades of classic cars and motorcycles: part museum, part working forum for Basel's vintage-car scene.
5 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
Basel Zoo
Switzerland's oldest and most visited zoo, affectionately known as 'Zolli', with a strong conservation focus.
6 km · about 10 min drive
museum
Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National (Collection Schlumpf)
The former Schlumpf brothers' secret collection in Mulhouse, the largest car museum in the world, with over 100 Bugattis including two Royales, hidden from the public until a factory occupation revealed it in 1977.
31 km · about 35 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Feldberg
The Black Forest's highest summit at 1,493 m offers Alps-to-Vosges panoramas and a chairlift up to the windswept ridge.
42 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Hartmannswillerkopf
A WWI mountain battlefield of trenches and a vast crypt overlooking the Alsace plain.
48 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Freiburg im Breisgau
The sunny gateway to the Black Forest, with a Gothic minster, Bächle waterways in the old town, and a vibrant university atmosphere.
49 km · about 55 min drive
cathedral
Freiburg Minster
A red-sandstone Gothic masterpiece whose lacy openwork spire towers over a market square at the edge of the Black Forest.
49 km · about 55 min drive
Driving roads near Riehen
7 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
- 42 kmFeldbergThe Black Forest's highest summit at 1,493 m offers Alps-to-Vosges panoramas and a chairlift up to the windswept ridge.
- 54 kmGrand BallonThe highest summit of the Vosges at 1424 m, crowning the Route des Crêtes with all-round Alsace views.
- 66 kmBallon d'Alsace SummitGrassy 1,247 m summit at the meeting point of Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comte, reached by a classic hairpinned climb first raced in the 1905 Tour de France; views stretch to Mont Blanc on clear days.
- 68 kmRoute des Vins d'AlsaceA 170 km wine road threading flower-decked villages and vine-clad hills below the Vosges mountains.
- 70 kmAlsace Wine RouteA 170-kilometer scenic wine road winding through vine-covered hills and storybook villages from Marlenheim to Thann.
- 72 kmCircuit BremgartenThe 7.3km forest circuit outside Bern where racing ended after Switzerland banned circuit motorsport in 1955. Its dappled, constantly curving roads through the Bremgartenwald are open to traffic and eerily unchanged.
Driving in Switzerland
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.82/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
- Vignette
- Required, around €42 for a short-stay sticker
When to drive here
April to October
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