Candle dipping Lenzburg: the only place where adults cast lanterns
✓ Checked at the source · as of 8 September 2026
Almost everywhere, candle dipping is the same offering for the same audience: children, an afternoon, a wick in wax. Lenzburg has something alongside it that exists nowhere else in the calendar — adults casting wax lanterns in the evening. You just have to ask for it.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Kerzenziehen im Tommasini
✓Wednesday, 18 November 2026 – Wednesday, 2 December 2026 · 15 days
- Organiser
- Elternverein Lenzburg
Source: elternverein-lenzburg.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Wed 18.11 14:00–17:00 · Sat 21.11 10:00–17:00 · Sun 22.11 10:00–17:00 · Wed 25.11 14:00–17:00 · Sat 28.11 10:00–17:00 · Sun 29.11 10:00–17:00 · Wed 02.12 14:00–17:00
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.
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🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Tommasini, 5600 Lenzburg
📋 Good to know before you go
- Food and drink
- Das Kafi Tomm bietet an allen öffentlichen Kerzenzieh-Terminen Getränke, Kuchen, Snacks oder Suppe.
- Public opening only on Wednesday afternoons and at weekends — seven published dates.
- The adult evenings (Thursday/Friday, wax-lantern casting and candle dipping) are «in the calendar» according to the organiser and carry no dates on the offering page. We therefore list only the published public afternoons.
- Besides school classes, clubs, teams and groups can also book the offering.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
Alongside classic dipping, the association offers something that is a one-off in our entire calendar: wax-lantern casting for adults in the evening.
And it is precisely that offering that is hardest to find.
Another point is the structure: 15 calendar days but only seven open days. Two full weekends fall between the first Wednesday and the last — read the run and plan a Tuesday and you find it closed. The Kafi Tomm is open on every public date and turns dipping into an afternoon rather than a stop.
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🗺️ Nearby sessions
In the canton of Aargau the ConvivaPlus candle-dipping calendar records 3 sessions. Lenzburg sits in the middle in timing: the Baden yurt opens two days earlier, while the Aarau session in the market hall carries on into mid-December.
Nationally the densest day of the season is 2 December 2026, with 28 sessions running at once; the season spans 23 September 2026 to 3 January 2027. That figure comes from the ConvivaPlus analysis and appears in no organiser's publication: it can only be calculated if both the start AND the end are documented for every location — we read both at the source and then count, for each calendar day, how many sessions are running at once.
More candle dipping in the canton of Aargau
All of the canton of Aargau →Just across the canton border
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – no date carried over from last year.
People also ask
Related questions from our magazine
In Baden in a yurt on the station square and in Aarau in the market hall — the Aarau edition is the 50th in 2026.
In the city of Zurich: three evenings at the GZ Heuried and one at the Lettenkirche with a glass of fizz and live music.
You pay by weight. Published prices range from CHF 3.– to CHF 6.– per 100 grams.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For families in the Seetal this is the obvious session, and for anyone wanting something other than dipping, the most interesting in the canton. That clubs and teams are explicitly invited makes it a rare address for a group Advent outing too.
What is missing is findability. Seven dates across two weeks and an undated evening offering demand a look at the association's site or a phone call. Anyone wanting reliability without asking will find it at the Baden yurt, which is open daily.
When we last checked: The adult evenings exist according to the organiser but are not published with dates — so we do not list them as an appointment. The seven public afternoons were read on 8 September 2026 directly from the association.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Lenzburg →
- ◆Seven days within 15 calendar days: read the run instead of the date list and you will very likely plan a closed day.
- ◆Clubs and teams explicitly welcome: not only school classes — one of the few candle-dipping addresses in Aargau for a group outing.
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Aargau
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 20 of the 52 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 28 later.
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.
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The only place in the calendar where adults can cast wax lanterns in the evening instead of dipping candles — in addition to the classic offering.
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🕯️ Candle dipping · 8 September 2026