Küttigen's Turnip Lantern Parade: Built for Kindergarten – and What That Means for Older Siblings
✓ Checked at the source · as of 6 September 2026
Most turnip lantern parades are village affairs: if you have a turnip, you walk. Küttigen is different. The parents' association names its audience explicitly — kindergarten children and the forest playgroup — and assembles not on a square but at the class meeting points. Together those two facts decide whether the evening suits your family.
📅 Parade 2026 — when and where
A single Friday – miss it and you wait a year.
Räbeliechtli-Umzug Küttigen
✓Friday, 6 November 2026 · 1 day
- Organiser
- Elternverein Küttigen, zusammen mit der Schule Küttigen
For all kindergarten children and the forest playgroup – interested schoolchildren are expressly welcome.
Source: evk-faz.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
🕐 Start time and running order
Where there are two groups, each start is listed separately — an average would be wrong for both.
Start: 18:00–18:45
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| Session | Run | Opening hours | Date set? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Räbeliechtli-Umzug Küttigen | Fri 6 Nov | 18:00–18:45 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Meeting point & transport with stop
- Assembly
- 17:45 an den Klassen-Treffpunkten
- Meeting point
- Neues Schulhaus Dorf
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this parade apart from every other one is not in its date.
«Expressly welcome» is a polite formula, and it says more than it lets on. It means: this parade is not built for schoolchildren, but they may come. For a family with one child in kindergarten and one in third grade that is the decisive piece of information — the older one accompanies here rather than takes part.
The second point is more practical and appears in no calendar: there is no central meeting point. Assembly is at 17:45 at the class meeting points — where the kindergarten groups gather anyway. Anyone newly moved in, or without a child at Küttigen kindergarten, does not know those spots. You then stand outside the school at 17:45 and see nobody, because the school is the destination and not the start.
That the parents' association and the school invite jointly explains both. An event organised through the classes needs no central assembly — and it lasts exactly as long as the youngest can manage: three quarters of an hour, 18:00 to 18:45.
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🎯 Practical tips for the evening
In Küttigen it is not the turnip that decides the evening, but the child's age and the right meeting point.
- 1For early planners: 8 of the season's 17 events start later than this one.
- 2The school is the destination, not the startThe parade heads for the new village school. Waiting there at 17:45 means missing the start and seeing the procession only at the end.
- 3From 18:00It only starts at 18:00 – an evening outing.
- 4In 2026 the first day falls on a Friday.
📊 Season comparison with nearby villages
Where this parade sits in the season — and which neighbouring village walks on the same evening.
Each bar is a documented evening. Dark = this parade, light = the nearest ones. A parade lasts an hour and often falls on the same evening as another — read only a date and you miss that the next village sets off at the same minute.
- KüttigenRäbeliechtli-Umzug Küttigen
- BadenAG
🗺️ Nearby parades
In the canton of Aargau the ConvivaPlus survey lists 3 parades; nationwide, 22 entries with 17 documented dates. The season runs from 30 October 2026 to 14 November 2026.
6 November 2026 is one of the best-documented evenings: besides Küttigen, 4 other recorded parades set off. The densest evening of the season is 6 November 2026, with 5 parades at once — a metric of the ConvivaPlus survey that exists only because every parade has a date read at a first-hand source (organiser or municipality).
More turnip lantern parades in the canton of Aargau
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The organiser decides, and the survey shows a wide range: Küttigen is explicitly for kindergarten children and lasts 45 minutes, elsewhere whole villages walk for an hour. In the canton of Aargau, 3 parades are recorded.
Because they are organised through the school or kindergarten rather than the village. In Küttigen the parents' association and the school run it jointly — the children gather where their class gathers anyway. For outsiders that means: the published location is the destination, not the start.
The recorded parades set off between 17:30 and 19:00 in late autumn and last 45 to 60 minutes, mostly at walking pace. Walking slowly chills you faster than strolling — on short parades like Küttigen that matters less than on long ones.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
Küttigen does something rare in this survey: it says who the evening is for.
Can't make the date? The nearest place with this event is Baden, 19 km away.
Freshness note: Times, audience and organisers come from the Elternverein Küttigen (as of 10 September 2026). Exactly where the class meeting points are is not published — that is the one detail you have to go and ask for.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Turnip Lantern Dataset 2026 – Küttigen →
- ◆A published location is not automatically the start. In Küttigen the new village school is the destination; assembly is distributed. That is the kind of detail that vanishes in an events calendar and decides whether you walk the parade or watch it pass.
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