Wollishofen's Turnip Lantern Parade: 45 Minutes, Four Streets, Back to the Start — Only the Day Is Missing
This survey contains a parade with a published date and almost nothing else. Wollishofen is its exact opposite: assembly, departure, return, every street of the route and what each child is given — it is all there. Everything but the when, which the neighbourhood association sums up in three words: «early November 2026».
📅 Start time, meeting point — and what the organiser actually published
Räbeliechtli-Umzug Wollishofen
date still opennot published yet — Der Quartierverein schreibt wörtlich «Der Räbeliechtliumzug 2026 findet am Anfang November 2026 statt» – ohne Tagesdatum.
- Start
- 18:00–18:45
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Entlisberg (Moosstrasse)
- Destination
- Schulhaus Entlisberg (Rückkehr ca. 18:45)
- Food and drink
- Bretzeli und Tee für jedes Kind auf dem Pausenplatz
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Wollishofen
Route: Moosstrasse – Paradiesstrasse – Entlisbergstrasse – Lettenholzstrasse – back to the Entlisberg schoolhouse.
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 11 September 2026
📅 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.
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Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
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.
- Zürich · WollishofenRäbeliechtli-Umzug Wollishofennot published yet
🔎 What sets this parade apart from every other one
Read this vein from above and you see two kinds of gap. In the first, everything is missing except the date — you know when, but not where. Wollishofen is the opposite pole: here exactly one field is missing. The neighbourhood association publishes the assembly time to the quarter hour, the departure, the approximate return, the four streets of the route — Moosstrasse, Paradiesstrasse, Entlisbergstrasse, Lettenholzstrasse — and even that every child gets pretzels and tea. Everything but the day.
That is more annoying than it sounds, and at the same time a good sign. Annoying, because a running order without a date cannot be planned around: you cannot block anything out, cancel anything, invite anyone. A good sign, because an association that writes down the route street by street evidently knows what it is doing — the date is missing here not out of indecision but because its turn had not come.
And then the number that sets this evening apart from all the others: forty-five minutes. Together with Küttigen that is the shortest published window in the entire survey. Added to which is something that appears nowhere else in this dataset: the start and the finish are the same address.The procession leaves the Entlisberg schoolhouse and comes back to it. For a family with a three-year-old that is not a detail but the whole difference — arrive once, leave once, no way back to organise, and the whole thing fits inside a kindergarten child's attention span.
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🎯 How not to end up in the dark at the wrong meeting point
Wollishofen is the parade for the youngest — short, a loop, and with a single open question.
- 1The date is the only open questionThe neighbourhood association writes «early November 2026» with no day. Everything else is fixed. A look at wollishofen-zh.ch in October closes the gap – we write no date the association has not given itself.
- 2Be there at 17:45, not 18:00Published are assembly at 17:45 and departure at 18:00. That quarter hour is not a buffer: it is when the children are sorted out and the lanterns are lit. Turn up at 18:00 and you will see the procession turning the corner.
- 3Parking once is enoughStart and finish are both at the Entlisberg schoolhouse on Moosstrasse – in this survey the only parade where that is so. No second journey, no child to collect somewhere else, no car left at the wrong end.
- 445 minutes: the right length for small children18:00 to around 18:45 – together with Küttigen the shortest published window in the whole survey. Anyone who has stood through a two-hour parade with a three-year-old knows why this point is near the top rather than the bottom.
🗺️ Where this parade sits in the season
The ConvivaPlus turnip lantern survey lists 22 parades, 16 of them with a verified date; in the canton of Zurich there are 12. The verified season runs from 30 October 2026 to 14 November 2026, the busiest evening being 6 November 2026 with 5 parades at once.
Wollishofen belongs to the entries without a verified date — and «early November» falls exactly into the stretch where half the survey crowds together. In practice: when the neighbourhood association announces its date, there is a fair chance it will land on an evening when other neighbourhood parades are already running in the city of Zurich. Anyone wanting both will then have to choose — and anyone wanting Wollishofen would do better to keep the whole first part of November free rather than a single evening.
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Frequently asked questions about this parade
Answers from the verified dataset – no date is carried over from last year.
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Related questions from our magazine
By length and layout, this one: 45 minutes, a loop, start and finish identical. For comparison, the survey lists 22 parades whose published windows range from 45 minutes to several hours.
Every verified turnip lantern parade →In this survey, Wollishofen and Höngg – both neighbourhood associations give only «early November». The other Zurich city districts in the survey have published their date; the canton of Zurich has 12 recorded parades.
Every parade in the canton of Zurich →About an hour. The published windows in this survey range from 45 minutes to several hours – the long ones usually describing the evening rather than the march: a refreshment stand, buffet or fair follows on.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For families with children under five this is the best entry in the whole survey — not for the experience but for the logistics. Forty-five minutes, a loop, pretzels and tea back at the starting point: that is an evening a three-year-old sees through to the end — and a parent too, if the other one stays home with the baby.
The caveat is just as clear: there is no date. Not «not yet confirmed», simply none — only «early November». Anyone who needs to plan firmly cannot do so here, and we advise against relying on any calculation. Checking the neighbourhood site in October is the only reliable information.
Freshness note: Running order, route and refreshments come from wollishofen-zh.ch, source read on 8 September 2026; on that day it was checked specifically whether a date had appeared in the meantime. It had not. «Early November 2026» is the neighbourhood association's own wording, not an estimate of ours.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Turnip Lantern Dataset 2026 – Zürich · Wollishofen →
- ◆The rarity of the loop: of 22 recorded parades exactly one is built to end where it started. In every other case there is a stretch between start and finish that has to be covered again with a child and a pushchair — usually in the dark and usually against the flow of everyone heading home. It is the kind of detail no announcement mentions and no parent forgets after the first time.
- ◆Two kinds of gap that are not the same: an entry with a date and no running order can be planned and sorted out on site. An entry with a full running order and no date cannot be planned — you know everything except the one thing you need first. Wollishofen is the purest case of the second kind in this survey, and that is why the missing figure is in the headline here rather than in the small print.
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Wollishofen is the only one of the 22 recorded turnip lantern parades whose published destination is the same address as the meeting point: Entlisberg schoolhouse, there and back in 45 minutes.
Discussion
3 voices from the community
45 Minute isch für üsi Chliini genau richtig. Mir händ letscht Jahr in Wiedike eine gmacht, wo fasch zwei Stund gange isch — d Hälfti vo de Chind het am Schluss nu no gjammeret.
De Clou isch, dass er wider zrugg zum Entlisberg chunnt. Eimal parkiere, Chind abgäh, Kafi, und am Schluss stahsch am gliiche Ort. Töönt banal, isch aber bi de meischte Umzüg nöd so.
«Anfang November» staht sit em Summer uf de Site. Mir händ s Ganze jetzt eifach als Serie im Kalender: jede Abig vo dere Wuche provisorisch blockiert, bis öppis Gnaus chunnt.
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🏮 Turnip lantern parade · 11 September 2026