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Event dates 2025
Wednesday, November 26 to Wednesday, December 24 2025
Opening hours
26 November (opening) | 4 pm to 9 pm
27 November to 23 December | daily 10 am to 9 pm
24 December | 10 am to 2 pm
Location: Dresden’s Altmarkt
Opening programme at November 26
3 pm | Ecumenical service in the Kreuzkirche Dresden
4 pm | Ceremonial procession from the Kreuzkirche to the Striezelmarkt stage on the Altmarkt with stage program
4.30 pm | Switching on the lights and opening of the stalls
Job fair of the Dresden Christmas market traders
Become part of the magical market world in Dresden. The Office for Economic Development is organizing a public job fair for Dresden's market traders.
Striezelmarkt highlights
- Advent Calendar Festival
November 29th 2025 - Day of the Church (Kreuzkirche)
November 30 2025 - Dresdner Stollen Festival, more Information
December 6th 2025 - Gingerbread Festival
December 7th 2025 - Pyramid Festival
December 13th 2025 - Magical moments
December 14th 2025 - Festival of the Choirs
December 21th 2025 - Farewell to the 591. Dresdner Striezelmarkt
December 24th 2025
Also daily
- Ore Mountain arts and crafts workshops and Dresden stollen bakers
- Listen and watch: in the fairy tale house and gnome cinema
- Join in: Christmas baking and handicrafts in the plum potato house
- Puppet theatre at the Advent calendar
- Changing and free cultural programme on the Striezelmarkt stage
What does "to striezel" mean?
to stroll around the Striezelmarkt (Germany’s oldest Christmas market) during Advent
What makes the Striezelmarkt unique?
The Dresden Striezelmarkt is regularly voted the favourite Christmas market in German-speaking countries. The 590th edition will take place in 2024, making it the oldest Christmas market in Germany. This visitor magnet attracts visitors with superlatives such as the world's largest 14.61-metre-high step pyramid from the Ore Mountains, what is probably the world's largest walk-in candle arch and a free daily Christmas cultural programme for young and old.
A real heartbreaker: the popular plum potato. Nobody can resist the wrinkly little figure when it smiles mischievously at the other person from under its top hat. The loving craftsmanship can be seen in every millimetre of this fruity doll on wooden legs.
And anything but particularly large - but all the more romantic: the historic Ferris wheel. A ride on it is a bit like travelling back in time, when you can look happily over the glittering huts of the Striezelmarkt with candy floss in your hand, the smell of roasted almonds in your nose and a barrel organ playing softly from somewhere.
Christmas in Dresden and the Elbland region
Get ready for big Christmas celebrations – from Dresden’s old town to festively decorated wineries. Centuries-old handicraft traditions, old and new friends, and radiant children’s faces. Right across Dresden and the Elbland region. Find out all there is to know about winter happenings in and around Dresden.
Press
For press and media representatives: Please contact the organiser, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, by email at presse@dresden.de for enquiries and information material.