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There are two Rheinfeldens facing each other across the river, in two countries.
Rheinfelden sits on the Rhine east of Basel, and directly opposite it, across the water, is another town of exactly the same name in Germany. A bridge joins them. The border runs down the middle of the river between them.
This is not a naming coincidence to be clever about. It is a live operational risk. A vehicle that crosses the bridge is in a different country, under a different customs regime, and an address giving only Rheinfelden does not say which bank it means.
Write Rheinfelden AG, with the canton code, and add the Swiss postcode. On a route where the wrong reading puts a lorry a few hundred metres away but on the other side of an international frontier, that is not pedantry.
Once the address is unambiguous, this is a straightforward delivery. The Swiss town is compact, sits on flat ground beside the river, and the inland leg from the Basel frontier is among the shortest in the country.
Rheinfelden also appears as Rheinfelden AG and Fricktal. Whichever version you searched for, this is the same city and the same page. Give the mover the address exactly as it appears on your Swiss lease.
Rheinfelden is the western end of the Fricktal, the stretch of Aargau running along the Rhine east from Basel. The towns and villages along it are served on the same runs and share the same short frontier leg.
Everything is German speaking, in the canton of Aargau, though Basel city and Basel-Landschaft are both a short distance west and the working orbit is Basel rather than Aarau.
Give the postcode with the address. On this delivery it is doing more work than usual.
Worth reading before you send an enquiry about Rheinfelden, in this order. These three come up with movers on almost every enquiry.
Form 18.44, however short the crossing.
The UK route and the frontier.
What a short inland leg is worth.
The town grew around brine springs and the saltworks that exploited them, and the spa quarter is still a feature. It is one of the older towns in this part of the country and the historic core reflects that: compact, walled in origin, and narrow in places.
Deliveries into the old streets are arranged with the commune with a standing point rather than a spot at the door, which is the usual Swiss arrangement. It is a small area.
Beyond it the town is modern and ordinary, with the housing and access of a comfortable Basel area commuter town.
People living here cross the bridge routinely, and a household on one side may be moving to the other. If that is your situation, be clear about it at enquiry, because the two are entirely different jobs.
A move to the Swiss bank is an import into Switzerland, with form 18.44, the six month rule and evidence of transfer of domicile, regardless of how short the German leg before it was. A move to the German bank is not a Swiss matter at all.
The proximity fools people into assuming the formality is somehow reduced. It is not. Switzerland sits outside the EU customs union and the frontier is a frontier however close the two town halls are.
Because there are two towns of that name facing each other across the Rhine, one Swiss and one German, joined by a bridge with the border running down the middle of the river. An address giving only Rheinfelden does not say which bank, and the wrong reading puts a lorry in another country.
A bridge apart. People cross routinely and the two town centres are a few hundred metres from each other. That proximity is exactly why the address needs the canton code and the postcode, because the distance offers no protection against the mistake.
No. Switzerland sits outside the EU customs union, so a move to the Swiss bank is a full import into Switzerland with form 18.44, the six month rule and evidence of transfer of domicile, however short the German leg before it. The frontier is a frontier.
Very. It is an import into Switzerland and needs the full Swiss paperwork, even though the distance is a bridge. Say so plainly at enquiry, because a mover planning a short local job and a mover planning an international clearance are doing different things.
Not once the address is settled. It is compact, sits on flat ground beside the river, and the inland leg from the Basel frontier is among the shortest in the country. Only the historic core needs the usual standing point arranged with the commune.
Brine springs and the saltworks that grew around them, which is why there is still a spa quarter. It is one of the older towns in this part of the country, so the historic core is compact and narrow in places, though the rest is modern and ordinary.
Yes. Rheinfelden is the western end of the Fricktal, the stretch of Aargau running along the Rhine east from Basel, and the towns and villages along it are served on the same runs and share the same short frontier leg.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, who has run the business since 2010. Last checked 5 August 2026.