Baden-Baden Christmas Market
From 27 November 2025 to 6 January 2026, a special kind of winter fairy tale awaits you at the traditional Christmas Market in front of the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden. Enjoy the Christmas season in the flair of the World Heritage city, framed by the mountains of the Black Forest.
When will the Christkindelsmarkt take place in 2025?
The Baden-Baden Christmas market 2024 is open from 27.11.2025 to 06.01.2026.
Where does the Christkindelsmarkt Baden-Baden take place?
The Christmas market in Baden-Baden, located in the picturesque Kurgarten directly in front of the historic, festively illuminated Kurhaus, offers a magical winter backdrop. The Kurhaus, an architectural landmark with magnificent colonnades, dominates the cityscape and gives the Christmas market a unique atmosphere. The city center with its numerous shopping opportunities is in the immediate vicinity. And the Lichtentaler Allee invites you to take relaxing winter walks.
What safety measures are in place?
There is a comprehensive underlying security concept for the Baden-Baden Christmas Market. This security concept is constantly reviewed on the basis of current findings and adapted if necessary.
This includes, among other things:
Entry protection
Preventive safety precautions have been taken extensively by the organiser.
- Barriers in the form of IBC containers as well as drive-through barriers (event defenders) are positioned at all relevant points and secure the market against unwanted entry.
- The market area is already well enclosed by the central buildings Kurhaus, the Kurhaus Kolonnaden and the Trinkhalle.
Security service
A qualified security service is permanently deployed during market operations and is closely liaised with the security staff. This security service guards the event site in order to recognise possible dangers and risks at an early stage.
Security team
A security team has been set up for the Christkindelsmarkt, which always consults in detail on the latest findings regarding potential hazards.
Arrival & location
For a relaxed journey, we recommend using public transport, especially at weekends.
Park & Ride
When using the P&R parking spaces in the Cineplex parking garage, up to 5 people per parking ticket are entitled to free travel on line 205 to the city center (Leopoldsplatz/Sophienstraße stop).
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Useful information
Is the Christkindelsmarkt barrier-free?
People with walking disabilities and wheelchair users can also stroll around Baden-Baden's Christmas market.
The entrances and all paths are barrier-free - only the historic drinking hall with the nativity scene exhibition cannot be visited without climbing a few steps due to the construction.
The huts are easily accessible and cables are properly laid.
Of course, there are barrier-free toilets on the premises and designated parking spaces in the Kurhaus underground garage.
Where is the best mulled wine?
Once again this year, Germany's best-known wine expert and sommelier, Natalie Lumpp, will be awarding prizes for the best mulled wines at Baden-Baden's Christmas market. You can find the results here and on Instragram & Facebook.
Information for tour groups
Information on traveling by coach
The new guided Christmas Market Tour "Art & Delicacies" is available as a private tour for groups on individual dates.
History
The Baden-Baden Christmas market was first held in 1971 on the small Römerplatz in the spa district, initiated and organised by the Glattfelder family. At the start, the Christmas market had around 20 vendors. Until 1978, the Römerplatz was the home of the Christmas market before it expanded to the Jesuitenplatz in 1979.
From then on, the Christmas market was an event organised by the city of Baden-Baden, which in 1980 expanded even further to the flower fountain and in 1981 included the entire pedestrian zone of Lange Straße. Since the Christmas market huts required a relatively large amount of space in the pedestrian zone and thus distracted from the shop windows, especially during the high season, the Christmas market was moved to the market square in 1983.
Since the city had the right to hold markets and subsidised them, it was possible to keep the stall rental at a reasonable level. However, there were a few conditions: local applicants were to be given preference when allocating stands, pure food and drink was not to make up more than 25% of the stands (this rule still applies today) and there was to be a Christmas programme organised by local Baden-Baden clubs. With around 50 huts, the Christmas market attracted many locals and visitors from the region year after year. With a children's carousel and a Christmas tree market, it was one of the major events and achieved cult status. Two weeks before Christmas Eve, the heart of Baden-Baden was in the old town. Until 1999, the Christmas market was organised by the city and the Glattfelder family, until they retired and the interest group of retailers, restaurateurs and hoteliers organised a Christmas market on Augustaplatz.
In 2001, the city moved the Christmas market to the area around the Fieserbrücke bridge and in front of the shops in the Kurhaus colonnades, where it has attracted visitors and an increasing number of tourists from abroad every year since then as the "Baden-Baden Christmas market". The market now extends from the Fieser-Brücke bridge to the Trinkhalle. The majority of it is in front of the Kurhaus and in the Kurgarten.