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Riehen

Riehen

Riehen, city (1990 pop. 19,914), Basel-Stadt canton, N Switzerland, on the Wiese River. It is a residential suburb of Basel.

Riehen is a municipality in the canton of Basel-City in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton.

Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a renowned privately-owned art gallery) as well as a toy museum. It also features numerous heritage sites of national significance: the church of St. Martin, several residential houses (the Wettsteinhäuser and the houses Huber, Schaeffer and Colnaghi) as well as the Wenkenhof estate.

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