Turnip lantern parades in the canton of Bern, 2026
Earlier than 2 of the 3 other cantons: things kick off on Sunday, 1 November.
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026 · 1 date still to come
Turnip lantern parades in the canton of Bern
4 places, each with dates and a checked source
📅 4 parades 2026 with date and start time
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- Assembly
- ca. 17:30
- Start
- 17:30
- Meeting point
- Badi Biglen
- Food and drink
- Kleine Verpflegung nach dem Umzug
- In bad weather
- Findet bei schlechtem Wetter NICHT statt – eine allfällige Absage steht rund zwei Tage vorher auf der Vereinsseite.
- Organiser
- Verein «Gemeinsam für Biglen»
One of the very few parades held on a Sunday.
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 September 2026
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- Start
- 17:30
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Meinisberg
- Food and drink
- Buffet beim Schulhaus mit Kürbissuppe, Wurst, Speckzopf, Gebäck und heissem Tee
- Organiser
- Elternverein Meinisberg
Turnip lantern OR paper lantern – here both kinds of light walk in the same parade.
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 September 2026
The municipality has published this 2026 date.
- Start
- 18:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Schulareal Gyrisberg
- Organiser
- Elternforum Jegenstorf
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 September 2026
The event usually takes place, but the 2026 date has not been published yet. We keep checking. every year on the first or second Wednesday in November
- Start
- 18:00
- Meeting point
- Drei Standorte in der Gemeinde
- Destination
- Hinterstädtli Wiedlisbach
- Food and drink
- Tee und Züpfe im Hinterstädtli
- Organiser
- Spielgruppe und Kindergärten Wiedlisbach
Recorded in the canton of Bern's inventory of «living traditions».
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 5 October 2026
🕐 Start times as published
2 of the 3 parades in the canton of Bern move off at 17:30 — Jegenstorf not until 18:00. The start time rarely appears in a calendar and almost always only on the association's own page; here each one stands as the organiser published it, with the assembly beforehand where it is named.
Start: 17:30
Start: 17:30
Start: 18:00–20:00
Start: 18:00
🏘️ 4 municipalities with organiser and date
4 places across 4 municipalities of the canton of Bern. For 4 of them we keep a page of their own: route, turnip sale and weather rule.
- Biglen — Räbeliechtliumzug Biglen, Verein «Gemeinsam für Biglen», 1 November 2026.
- Meinisberg — Räbeliechtli- und Laternliumzug Meinisberg, Elternverein Meinisberg, 6 November 2026.
- Jegenstorf — Räbeliechtliumzug Jegenstorf, Elternforum Jegenstorf, 13 November 2026.
- Wiedlisbach — Räbeliechtliumzug Wiedlisbach, Spielgruppe und Kindergärten Wiedlisbach, not published yet.
📍 Assembly points and destinations
Star marches have several assembly points and a single destination — stand at the wrong one and you spend the evening chasing the band. Every published point is therefore listed separately.
- Assembly
- ca. 17:30
- Meeting point
- Badi Biglen
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Meinisberg
- Meeting point
- Schulareal Gyrisberg
- Meeting point
- Drei Standorte in der Gemeinde
- Destination
- Hinterstädtli Wiedlisbach
🎒 Food and weather — what the societies announce
Punch and sausages at the finish, registration for turnip carving, and above all: does the society set off in the rain anyway? That is the question a family evening hangs on, and it appears on no aggregator page.
- Food and drink
- Kleine Verpflegung nach dem Umzug
- In bad weather
- Findet bei schlechtem Wetter NICHT statt – eine allfällige Absage steht rund zwei Tage vorher auf der Vereinsseite.
- Food and drink
- Buffet beim Schulhaus mit Kürbissuppe, Wurst, Speckzopf, Gebäck und heissem Tee
- Food and drink
- Tee und Züpfe im Hinterstädtli
📊 Season comparison across the canton
Every documented parade in the canton of Bern fits into 13 days: from Biglen on Sunday, 1 November 2026 to Jegenstorf on 13 November 2026. The bar shows which evenings get crowded — and which stay empty.
📭 1 date open — and why they stay listed
1 parade in the canton of Bern has no published 2026 date yet — and stays listed anyway, marked open instead of filled in from last year. We write no date we have not read at the source; the gap is information in itself.
- Wiedlisbach — not published yet — every year on the first or second Wednesday in November. Source
🗺️ 3 cantons compared
18% of all parades we verified across Switzerland fall in the canton of Bern: 4 of 22. The table sets it beside the other 2 cantons with a page of their own — and shows where the survey grows next.
For the canton of Bern we hold 4 events in 4 municipalities, 3 of them with a 2026 date confirmed by the organiser. The rest are deliberately listed without a date: the event usually takes place, the date has not been published yet. We write no date we have not read at the source.
❓ Common questions about the canton
Short and sourced: every answer is calculated from the 4 checked entries for the canton of Bern, not estimated.
All Räbeliechtli parades in Switzerland
How we check
Every date comes from the organiser's, the municipality's or the canton's own site — never from an aggregator, never copied over from last year. Next to each source is the date we last read it.
Where only a fixed rule is published, such as the eve of St Nicholas' Day, we work out the date and label it “calculated from the fixed rule”. Anything not yet published stays open — we don't guess.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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