Candle dipping in Allschwil: a date without a year — and the Friday that gives it away
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
Until early October all that stood here was a rule: «the weekend of the first Sunday of Advent». Now the parish names three days — Friday, Saturday, Sunday — but no year. The date is confirmed all the same, and the proof lies in a single day of the week.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Kerzenziehen der Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Sunday, 29 November 2026 · 3 days
- Organiser
- Freiwillige der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch
Source: refallschwil.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Friday 15:15–21:00 · Saturday 10:00–17:00 · Sunday 10:45–17:00
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
- Calvinhaus, Allschwil
📋 Good to know before you go
- Food and drink
- Kleines Angebot an Kaffee, Tee und Kuchen.
- The parish lists the three days without a year («Freitag 27 November · Samstag 28 November · Sonntag 29 November»). 27 November is a Friday only in 2026, and the weekend is exactly the «weekend of the first Sunday of Advent» it publishes as its rule — hence the date is listed as confirmed.
- Coloured candles and beeswax candles can be dipped; the offering is aimed at school classes and the general public.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
The parish writes: «Nächster Anlass Freitag 27 November … Samstag 28 November … Sonntag 29 November». No year anywhere. Until then Allschwil was the only entry in our whole calendar whose date was calculated from the fixed rule — a date you could work out but not quote.
And the rule kept something quiet that only the times reveal: the «weekend» starts on Friday at 15:15 and runs until 21:00. If you want to dip after work, that one evening is all you get. Then there are the blanks that only need colouring — for children who have had enough after five minutes of dipping, the difference between «we are coming back» and «I made my own candle».
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
- 1Sunday only from 10:45Sunday starts three quarters of an hour later than Saturday. If you want to be there early, plan Saturday.
- 2Classes and public share the offerThe parish expressly addresses both. If you want to come with a group or a class, let the parish know beforehand.
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❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – no date carried over from last year.
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Related questions from our magazine
In the city of Basel: five offerings in the calendar, two of them at the Christmas market with a four-week run and daily opening.
The organiser has published a recurring rule («weekend of the first Sunday of Advent») but no annual date. We then derive the date and mark it expressly as a derivation — until the source confirms it. In Allschwil that happened on 5 October 2026.
In Thalwil: the event is biennial and is not held in 2026 because the parish hall is being renovated.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For families from Allschwil and Schönenbuch this is the neighbourhood's event — short, close, with blanks for the little ones and a coffee for the grown-ups. Now that the date is fixed, that holds for visitors from elsewhere too.
When we last checked: Days, opening hours, venue and offer come from refallschwil.ch, source read on 5 October 2026. The page gives the days WITHOUT a year. We list them as confirmed because two independent checks agree: the weekday (27 November = Friday only in 2026) and the published rule «weekend of the first Sunday of Advent». Until early October only the rule stood here, marked as a derivation.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Allschwil →
- ◆The rule held — and kept something quiet: «weekend of the first Sunday of Advent» sounded like Saturday and Sunday.
- ◆Blanks instead of forty dips: for small children the difference between «we are coming back» and «I made my own candle» — few places offer it.
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Basel-Landschaft
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 34 of the 52 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 15 later.
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