Excursion Tips
Our location as a suburb of Basel could hardly be better, only 3 km from the motorway and 8 km from the centre of Basel, the museum city on the trinational border.
The great outdoors, our wellness park, is on our doorstep. The Ermitage nature reserve, laid out in 1785, must be one of the most beautiful wellness parks that nature has ever created. Every year the Ermitage’s caves, ponds and hermitage attract numerous visitors, walkers and nature-lovers. Whatever the day or season, a walk through the Ermitage is a special experience.
Arlesheim also offers several cultural attractions. A stone’s throw away from the Ochsen is Arlesheim’s beautiful baroque cathedral (Dom) with its world-renowned «Silbermann» organ www.rkk-arlesheim.ch.
The 2 castles of Birseck and Reichenstein tower above the village of Arlesheim. Birseck castle can be visited every Wednesday and Sunday from mid-May until the end of September. For those who would like to be lord of the castle, Reichenstein castle can be hired for a birthday party, romantic wedding, company event or Christmas celebration. We can also spoil you there with our culinary treats high above the roofs of Arlesheim. All this makes Arlesheim an endearing and attractive place.
You will be spoilt for choice between the bustling city and the rural idyll.