There are 9 ways to get from Essen to Brienz by train, bus, car, or plane
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Train
best- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Interlaken Osttrain Ic61 / ...
8h 18mCHF 65–203Train, bus
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Leverkusen Mittetrain Re
- Take the bus from Leverkusen to Zurich Bus Stationbus N11
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Luzerntrain Ir / ...
- Take the train from Luzern to Brienztrain Lix / ...
15h 32mCHF 80–124Drive 694.1 km
- Drive from Essen to Brienzcar 694.1 km
6h 13mCHF 109–157Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane DUS - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Luzerntrain
- Take the train from Luzern to Brienztrain
7h 8mCHF 109–290Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane CGN - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Luzerntrain
- Take the train from Luzern to Brienztrain
7h 35mCHF 116–296Train to Frankfurt, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Basel (BSL)plane FRA - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Interlaken Osttrain
7h 34mCHF 160–387Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane DUS - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Berntrain
- Take the train from Bern to Interlaken Osttrain
9h 1mCHF 147–340Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane DUS - MXP
- Take the train from Gallarate to Domodossolatrain
- Take the train from Domodossola to Spieztrain
9h 5mCHF 84–286Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane DUS - LIN
- Take the train from Rho-Fiera Milano to Spieztrain
9h 43mCHF 128–358
Essen to Brienz by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Essen to Brienz is to train and bus which costs SFr 80 - SFr 130 and takes 15h 32m.
The fastest way to get from Essen to Brienz is to drive which takes 6h 13m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 160.
No, there is no direct train from Essen to Brienz. However, there are services departing from Essen Hbf and arriving at Brienz via Basel SBB and Interlaken Ost. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 18m.
The distance between Essen and Brienz is 751 km. The road distance is 694.1 km.
The best way to get from Essen to Brienz without a car is to train which takes 8h 18m and costs SFr 65 - SFr 210.
It takes approximately 8h 18m to get from Essen to Brienz, including transfers.
Essen to Brienz train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Essen Hbf station.
Essen to Brienz train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Basel SBB station.
Yes, the driving distance between Essen to Brienz is 694 km. It takes approximately 6h 13m to drive from Essen to Brienz.
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What companies run services between Essen, Germany and Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Essen Hbf to Brienz via Basel SBB and Interlaken Ost in around 8h 18m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–300
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–140
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–310
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 26m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–210
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–260
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–250
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–250
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–160
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–140
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–250
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–160
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–140
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–180
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–140
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–250
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–190
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–250
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–310
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–290
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 23–110
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–290
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Essen Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Essen Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Interlaken Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–27
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Interlaken Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–34
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Domodossola to Spiez
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Interlaken Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–16
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Essen Hbf to Leverkusen Mitte
- Ave. Duration
- 45 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–18
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–20
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Essen Hbf to Leverkusen Mitte
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–18
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 9126 301 90 70
- fahrgaeste@train-rental.com
- Website
- train-rental.com
Train from Essen Hbf to Leverkusen Mitte
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- train-rental.com
- Phone
- +41 (0)58 668 80 00
- info@zentralbahn.ch
- Website
- zentralbahn.ch
Train from Luzern to Brienz
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–35
- Website
- https://www.zentralbahn.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Gallarate to Domodossola
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–8
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Gallarate to Domodossola
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–8
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +41 58 327 32 71
- Website
- bls.ch
Train from Domodossola to Spiez
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 46m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–24
- Website
- https://www.bls.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Domodossola to Spiez
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–65
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- CHF 45–65
- 2nd Class
- CHF 26–35
Train from Rho-Fiera Milano to Spiez
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–90
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- CHF 60–90
- 2nd Class
- CHF 45–60
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Leverkusen to Zurich Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–45
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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