Baden-Baden Christmas Market

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.

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 on traveling by coach

The new guided Christmas Market Tour "Art & Delicacies" is available as a private tour for groups on individual dates.

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.