Zeitturm, Mellingen

Name: Zeitturm
Address: Mellingen, Switzerland

#2 among attractions in Mellingen

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The Zeitturm is a gate tower in Mellingen, Switzerland. It is located on the southern edge of the old town, at the obtuse angle of the isosceles triangular town plan. The tower rises above the Lenzburg Gate, the passage between the central main street to the Reuss Bridge and the Lindenplatz, where the main roads to Baden, Brugg and Lenzburg meet. The Lenzburg Gate is the only gateway in the Canton of Aargau where the forework has been preserved.

Coordinates: 47°25'6"N, 8°16'22"E

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Zeitturm – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stein Castle, Historic Museum Baden & Bailiff’s Castle, Schloss Brunegg, Children's museum.

4.1 miN
Historical place, Forts and castles, View point
Stein Castle, Baden
105 min walk • Stein Castle is a castle ruin above the municipality of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
4.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Historic Museum Baden & Bailiff’s Castle, Baden
107 min walk • The Landvogteischloss is a small castle in the city of Baden in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is located on the right bank of the Limmat River opposite the old town and once guarded the narrows between the Schlossberg to the west and the Lägern to...
2.8 miW
Forts and castles
Schloss Brunegg
71 min walk • Brunegg castle is a castle in the municipality of Brunegg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. The castle was built on a hill at the edge of the Jura mountains in the 13th Century.
3.9 miNE
47°28'11"N • 8°18'28"E
Children's museum, Baden
100 min walk • History museum, Museum
4.2 miNE
47°28'24"N • 8°18'39"E
Historisches Museum Baden, Baden
107 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
3.4 miE
Nature, Restaurant, Natural attraction
Restaurant Heitersberg, Spreitenbach
88 min walk • Heitersberg Pass aka "The Dabiah Passage" is a mountain pass in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. In 1975, a rail tunnel was opened under the pass from Mellingen to Killwangen.
4.2 miNE
Bridge
Covered wooden bridge, Baden
106 min walk • The wooden bridge is a bridge in Baden, Switzerland, and crosses the Limmat River at the narrowest point of the Klus between Schlossberg and Lägern. It is 39 meters long and leads from the left bank old town to the Landvogteischloss on the right...
4.1 miNE
Sacred and religious sites, Church
Katholische Stadtkirche, Baden
105 min walk • The Stadtpfarrkirche Maria Himmelfahrt is the Roman Catholic parish church in Baden, Switzerland. It belongs to the Catholic parish of Baden-Ennetbaden in the diocese of Basel.
3.3 miNE
Universities and schools
Wettingen Abbey, Baden
85 min walk • Wettingen Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Wettingen in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It was founded in 1227 and dissolved during the secularisation of 1841, but re-founded at Mehrerau in Austria in 1854.
4.1 miNE
Observation decks and towers, Forts and castles
Stadtturm, Baden
106 min walk • The Stadtturm is a gate tower in the old town of Baden, Switzerland. It was built in the middle of the 15th century and served as the northern city gate. Besides the bailiff's castle, it is the only completely preserved part of the medieval city...
4.2 miNE
47°28'23"N • 8°18'36"E
ThiK Theater im Kornhaus, Baden
107 min walk • Concerts and shows, Theater