By Air

Airports nearest to Munchenstein are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Basle-Mulhouse Airport (distanced approximately 10 km)
Mulhouse/basel Euroairport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg Airport (distanced approximately 11 km)
Herten Rheinfelden Airport (distanced approximately 12 km)
Basel/mulhouse Basel Bad - Railway Airport (distanced approximately 15 km)
Fricktal-Schupfart Airport (distanced approximately 25 km)

By Train

The railway connects Rodersdorf and Leymen (Alsace, France) with the Leimental Fluh.Battwil, Witterswil, Ettingen, Therwil, Oberwil, Allschwil, Binningen have the rail link with the city of Basel and the Birseck, Munchenstein Arlesheim and Dornach.

By Road

By means of exit Muttenz / Munchenstein at the H18 is also the village on the Swiss motorway network ( A2 ) is connected.These high-performance road ends at the time of Aesch, ranging from Angenstein and should lead to a later date Duggingen direction.

By Bus

Baselland Transport have two tramlines and three bus lines through Münchenstein.The line number 10 is the second longest tramline in Europe.The BLT tram line 11, runs from Aesch on Reinach, New Munich stone and the Basel SBB train station to the St. Louis line.Several bus routes complement the public transport in Munich stone.

Stone ruins of Munich, St.Jakobshalle Hall, Schaulager Museum, Coach and Carriage Museum, Frog Museum, Museum of Electricity

Stone ruins of Munich

The ruin is the remains of a stone Munich high medieval castle above Munchenstein, (in the area Birseck) in the Swiss canton of Basel-Country.The ruins of the castle is situated on an elongated, narrow rocky ridge.There are now only small remnants of wall visible which rise above the old village center of Munich stone.Because of the danger of falling - a ruin situated in the village - access to a small gate is locked.The key is readily available on local government Munchenstein.Until the founding and building of the castle, the village, an agricultural settlement tribe which numbered probably a few houses called Geckingen Kekingen later.Gaining strength in 1260 and acquired the knights of the Munch to the cathedral chapter of Basel belonging Geckingen village in Birstal.The time of origin of the castle can not be determined exactly.Likely began at 1260-1275 with the construction.

St.Jakobshalle Hall

is an arena in Munchenstein, near Basel, Switzerland.It is primarily used for indoor sports and concert events.The St.Jakobshalle holds 9,000 people and was built in 1976.It is the home of the Davidoff Swiss Indoors men's tennis tournament.After the success of the Swiss tennis player and Basel native Roger Federer, the Basel sports director has announced the arena is to be renamed the 'Roger Federer Arena'.According to Bob Dylan's biography Chronicles: Volume One, he decided after a concert at St.Jakobshalle to go on the Never Ending Tour.

Schaulager Museum

is a museum in Newmunchenstein, a sub-district of Munchenstein in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland.Built in 2002/2003 under commission of the Laurenz Foundation is was designed by the renowned architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron the Schaulager opened in 2003.The Schaulager was conceived as an open warehouse that provides the optimal spatial and climatic conditions for the preservation of works of art.The institution functions as a mix between public museum, art storage facility and art research institute.It is primarily directed at a specialist audience but is also open to the general public for special events and the annual exhibitions.The collection from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation forms the main core of the Schaulager exhibits.This collection was founded in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin (7.August 1896; 8.August 1989) later known as Maja Sacher, wife of Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999).

Coach and Carriage Museum

was opened during 1981 as the fourth section of the Basel Historical Museum.The privately owned Coach and Carriage Museum, section can be found in a barn on the elevated plain above Bruglingen in the Park im Grunen/"Merian Park" in Munchenstein on the southeast boarder of Basel.The museum building and the grounds belong to the Christoph Merian Stiftung.In 1837 the architect Melchior Berri developed a farm house with an outbuilding with stables, a short distance north of the manor house Villa Merian, in Vorder-Bruglingen, (the area in "front" of Bruglingen).The original barn caught fire and completely burnt out in 1905.The existing replacement building is from 1906.

Frog Museum

is in Newmunchenstein, a sub-district of Munchenstein, in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.The Frog Museum was privately founded in Basel in 1981/82 by the married couple Elfi und Rolf Rindlisbacher with about 500 exhibits.In 1992 the Museum moved from Basel to Munchenstein with 5000 frog objects and installed a modern and larger museum (100 m2) in the building of the Handwerkstadt, a commercial centre for craft works.In 1993 the collection had grown so big that it was rewarded with an inclusion in Guinness World Records.In 1994 the museum was enlarged again (150 m2)The Frog Museum now has more than 13'600 exhibits of very differing shapes, sizes and materials.

Museum of Electricity

is in Munchenstein, in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.The Elektrizitatsmuseum belongs to the electric utility Elektra Birseck Munchenstein (EBM) and was opened in 1997.Exhibits explore the history and development of power production and its use.The collection contains rare historic equipment and is complemented by a laboratory in which visitors can experiment with electric power.

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