Candle dipping in Teufen: here the calendar says who runs the wax pot
✓ Checked at the source · as of 12 September 2026
Most organisers publish a run and an opening time. Teufen publishes eight individual operating days, each with its own hours — and for five of them, which team runs the wax pot that day. That is unique in our entire survey. On the same page, however, sits a trap.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Open on 8 of the 10 calendar days – in between, the door stays shut.
Kerzenziehen im Advent im Pfarreizentrum Stofel
✓Wednesday, 2 December 2026 – Friday, 11 December 2026 · 10 days
- Organiser
- Katholische Pfarrei Teufen-Bühler-Stein (Jugendarbeit, KJAT und Jubla Rotbach)
The only session in this survey that publishes which team runs the wax pots on which day: the KJAT team on both Wednesdays, Jubla Rotbach on Saturday and Sunday. Elsewhere the calendar gives only the hours.
Source: kath-rotbachtal.ch · checked on 12 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Many workshops open on set weekdays only — so each window is listed separately rather than as one continuous run.
Wed 2 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 3 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 4 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Sat 5 Dec 11:00–18:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Sun 6 Dec 10:00–14:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Wed 9 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 10 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 11 Dec 14:00–17:30
🗓️ Open today?
8 days with something on, 2 of them on a Saturday or Sunday – enter your day and the check tells you what is open.
📅 Visit-day check
Pick the day you are free — the answer comes from the verified ConvivaPlus dataset, not from a run you have to work out in your head.
| Session | Run | Opening hours | Date set? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerzenziehen im Advent im Pfarreizentrum Stofel | Wed 2 Dec – Fri 11 Dec10 days | Wed 2 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 3 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 4 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Sat 5 Dec 11:00–18:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Sun 6 Dec 10:00–14:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Wed 9 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 10 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 11 Dec 14:00–17:30 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
The nearest stop is 105 metres away as the crow flies.
- Meeting point
- Pfarreizentrum Stofel (Untergeschoss), Stofelweid 1b, 9053 Teufen
- Nearest stop
- Teufen AR, Stofel (BUS) — 105 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
📋 Good to know before you go
- Food and drink
- Alte Kleider und Schuhe anziehen; Schachteln oder Tasche für den Transport der Kerzen mitbringen.
- Price: CHF 4.– per 100 g of coloured wax. Children under 8 only when accompanied by an adult. Insurance is, according to the organiser, the participants' own responsibility.
- Advance booking via the online tool Nuudel is requested; dropping in is possible but without guarantee.
- Cross-checked on 12 September 2026: the run and the eight operating days carry the year 2026, and every weekday-date pair fits 2026 (2 December = Wednesday) and no other year. The registration link and the linked flyer on the same page, however, are still labelled «Kerzenziehen 2025» — open the flyer and you read last year's figures.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
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. Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 December are closed. A date list printing «2 to 11 December» claims ten days in a row and is wrong on two of them. This is not cosmetic: it is a family's second drive with children in the car.
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. 2 December is a Wednesday in 2026, exactly as the page says; in 2025 it was a Tuesday. Every one of the eight weekday-date pairs fits 2026 and no other year. The operating hours are therefore current — only the two labels have been left behind.
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.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
- 17 and 8 December are closedThe published run covers ten calendar days; it is open on eight. Monday and Tuesday of the second week drop out. Anyone reading only the start and end plans straight into that gap.
- 2Every day has its own hours — and they vary a lotOn Sunday 6 December it is open from 10:00 to 14:00; the Saturday before, from 11:00 to 18:00. Three hours separate the shortest day from the longest. If you are planning an afternoon, check the specific day, not the week.
- 3Advance booking via Nuudel — dropping in works, but without guaranteeThe organiser asks for advance booking through the online tool Nuudel. Turning up without booking is possible but expressly without guarantee. For a trip from outside, booking is worth it.
- 4Under 8 only accompanied — and insurance is the visitors' own affairThe age rule is published: under 8 only with an accompanying adult. The organiser also states expressly that insurance is the participants' own responsibility.
📊 Season comparison with nearby places
Where this session sits in the season — and which neighbour has already closed when it opens.
Each bar is a documented run. Dark = this session, pale = the nearest ones. Read a single date and you miss that the neighbouring village has already packed up when the wax here is only just warming.
- TeufenKerzenziehen im Advent im Pfarreizentrum Stofel
🗺️ Nearby sessions
Teufen is the first and so far only entry for canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden in our candle-dipping dataset. On opening day 25 further sessions are running outside the municipality; after that only 3 more begin anywhere in Switzerland. Nationally 47 of 58 entries are documented, across 19 of 26 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 26 wax pots open at once.
Candle dipping nearby
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – no date carried over from last year.
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Several — Uster, Lenzburg, Gossau and Solothurn name dated individual days. But Teufen is the only session in our survey that also publishes which team runs the pot on which day.
In Appenzell (AI), in the garden of the Maria der Engel women's convent. The event is documented, but no 2026 date had been published as of 12 September 2026.
Because many sessions have closed days in the middle of the run. In Teufen there are two; in Chur nine days separate the run from the open days. Anyone reading only the start and end dates plans into thin air.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For families in the Appenzell midlands Teufen is the most plannable address in the region: the price is there, the age rule is there, every single day is listed with its hours — and on top of that, who is guiding on that day. No other session in this survey offers that much predictability.
Freshness note: Run, the eight operating days with hours, price, age rule and booking form come from the organiser (kath-rotbachtal.ch), checked on 12 September 2026. The registration link and the linked flyer on the same page are still labelled «Kerzenziehen 2025» — the flyer contains last year's figures. The operating hours were cross-checked against the calendar: every weekday-date pair fits 2026 and no other year.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Teufen →
- ◆Two closed days in the middle of the run: Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 December. «2 to 11 December» sounds like ten days in a row and is wrong on two of them.
- ◆At the weekend Jubla runs the pot: Saturday and Sunday Jubla Rotbach runs the operation, on the Wednesdays the KJAT team. No other organiser in this survey publishes that.
- ◆From the Teufen AR, Stofel stop it is 105 metres as the crow flies.
How we check
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