S AM Bike Tour – Open House PLUS+
10 AM–6 PM
In cooperation with Open House Basel : 27/ & 28/ April 2024
Andreas Ruby, the director of the Swiss Architecture Museum, offers a bike tour for sporty riders with a focus on industrial places in the trinational agglomeration.
The S AM bike tour makes a wide berth around Basel and unfolds the entire spectrum of the border triangle with its fascinating industrial building culture, beguiling wine-growing landscapes and memorable non-places in the intermediate city. Our path takes us through former or still active industrial areas and crosses four ports in three countries. We discover places where salt is mined, water energy is produced and metal waste is processed. We pass the southernmost point of Baden-Württemberg, see agricultural fields next to pharmaceutical plants and pass world-class cultural institutions. We discover hidden commercial areas in the borderland and drive under motorway viaducts over secret routes that Google has never heard of. We feel the heart of the Grande Nation even in its most remote border town (the obelisk of Huningue) and finally return to Basel along the Rhine. 50 km full of discoveries in one of the most beautiful cultural landscapes in Europe.
If your bike can handle different surfaces, it hasn't been your only bike tour of the year, you don't have an aversion to sweating and you feel like improvising, then this tour is right for you.
TO NOTE:
- demanding tour with gradients
- Distance: 50 km
- Pure travel time: approx. 3.5 hours
- Total duration: approx. 8 hours (including visits to architecture and breaks)
- Pack drinks and food for the trip
- Luminous vest and weatherproof clothing recommended
- Bring your own roadworthy bike (with lighting) or e-bike
ROUTE:
- Birsfeld harbor and Auhafen
- Swiss salt pans
- Schweizerhalle disposal center
- Augst-Wyhlen hydroelectric power station
- Agricultural and industrial zone near Grenzach
- Cultural sites in Riehen
- Vineyard paths above Allweil
- Because on the Rhine
- Kleinhünigen harbor area
- Waterfront Huningue
- via the Rhine cycle path back to the Schifflände Basel
Reservation required: Registration
Meeting point: in front of the main entrance of the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Steinenberg 7
Note: Bring your own bike and weatherproof clothing - the tour takes place in all weathers!
You should also be able to carry your bike up and down a flight of stairs, as this will be necessary at one point on the tour.
