- Address: Westquaistrasse 75, 4057 Basel, Switzerland
- Phone: +41 61 556 15 10
- Website: dreilaendereck-basel.ch
Dreilandereck is a stele at the crossroads of three countries (Switzerland, Germany, France) in the upper Rhine. From a technical point of view, the border of the three states is in the middle of the river, but a symbolic stele was installed on the shore in the port of Basel .
How did the stele appear?
From the German city of Freiburg, you can easily reach the Swiss Basel and French Strasbourg. From the top of the southern Black Forest you can see a beautiful view of the French Vosges, between the mountain ranges of which there are many towns of Alsace. The border location of Basel has a huge impact on the national composition of the city: 150 people of the world live here. Every day in the two-hundred-thousand-strong city from neighboring Germany and France almost 60 thousand people come to work, which other Europeans call "pendulum migrants". Given the characteristics of Basel, the city authorities decided to erect the stelae of the three countries.
What else to see?
Only in Basel near Dreilenderek you can visit three European countries in fifteen minutes. You stood on the square and only German speech was heard, but you crossed the bridge over the Rhine and French became heard. Although it is difficult to find Dreilenderek without the help of a navigator, all the same, many tourists come to the stele to be photographed for memory. Here you can see the harbor, in which more than 500 ships are parked, go on a steamer on the Rhine, take the elevator to the 50-meter Siloturm tower and dine in the super modern Swiss restaurant "Dreilandereck", from the terrace which offers a beautiful view of the river.
How to get there?
Before Dreilenderek in Switzerland, you can get there by taking the tram number 8 at the main tram station and heading north down the Rhine to the Kleinhueningen stop. From the stop you have to walk about 10 minutes to the river bank and the border with Germany. In the port on the peninsula is a silver stele with the flags of three countries.
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