Candle dipping in Teufen: here the calendar says who runs the wax pot

Anyone planning a candle-dipping visit usually looks for two figures: from when to when, and what time of day. Teufen supplies a third that nobody else does — who is at the pot on that day. On both Wednesdays it is the KJAT team; on Saturday and Sunday, Jubla Rotbach. It sounds like a footnote and is, for a child, the real reason to want a particular day.

The second peculiarity is the shape of the window: 10 calendar days, 8 open days — and the gap is not at the edge, it is in the middle.

And then there is the place where this otherwise very well-kept page misleads: the registration link and the flyer are still labelled «Kerzenziehen 2025». So we cross-checked rather than guessed, at the one place that cannot lie: the calendar.

For planning that means: you can follow the hours at the top of the page, but not the flyer once opened. We therefore name which field is affected instead of distrusting the whole source.

Teufen is the first and so far only entry for canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden in our candle-dipping dataset. On opening day 27 further sessions are running outside the municipality; after that only 4 more begin anywhere in Switzerland. Nationally 52 of 58 entries are documented, across 19 cantons.

The neighbouring canton makes the interesting comparison: in Appenzell the workshop stands in a convent garden and the event is documented — but for 2026 without a date. Twenty minutes' drive away, in Teufen, every hour is on the page. Anyone in the Appenzell region who wants to dip a candle and needs a date has one right here. The densest day of the whole season is 2 December 2026, with 28 wax pots open at once.