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
3 days in a row, one weekend included.
Kerzenziehen der Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Sunday, 29 November 2026 · 3 days
- Organiser
- Freiwillige der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch
For the impatient: alongside classic dipping, blanks are ready that only need colouring.
Source: refallschwil.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Many workshops open on set weekdays only — so each window is listed separately rather than as one continuous run.
Friday 15:15–21:00 · Saturday 10:00–17:00 · Sunday 10:45–17:00
🗓️ Open today?
3 days with something on, 2 of them on a Saturday or Sunday – enter your day and the check tells you what is open.
📅 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.
| Session | Run | Opening hours | Date set? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerzenziehen der Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch | Fri 27 Nov – Sun 29 Nov3 days | Friday 15:15–21:00 · Saturday 10:00–17:00 · Sunday 10:45–17:00 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
- 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 survey whose date was calculated from the fixed rule — a date you could work out but not quote.
The proof is in the weekday. 27 November is a Friday only in 2026 — in 2025 it was a Thursday, in 2027 it will be a Saturday. And the weekend is exactly the one «of the first Sunday of Advent» that the parish has published as its rule for years. Two independent checks, one result: this is no longer a derived date but a confirmed one.
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
In Allschwil Friday decides it: it is the only evening that runs until 9 pm.
- 1Friday evening until 9 pmOn Friday the Calvinhaus opens at 15:15 and closes at 21:00. Saturday and Sunday end at 17:00 — if you come after work, you come on Friday.
- 2Sunday only from 10:45Sunday starts three quarters of an hour later than Saturday. If you want to be there early, plan Saturday.
- 3Blanks to colour — the way out for the impatientWith a child who does not want to dip forty times, take a ready-made blank and just colour it. Few places offer that.
- 4Classes 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.
📊 Season comparison with nearby places
Where this session sits in the season — and which neighbour has already closed when it opens.
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.
🗺️ Nearby sessions
In the canton of Basel-Landschaft the ConvivaPlus candle-dipping survey records 1 session — this one. The nearest alternative with verified dates is in Basel, where five offerings are recorded, two of them at the Christmas market with a four-week run.
Nationwide the busiest day of the season is 2 December 2026 with 26 events running at once. With 27 Nov–29 Nov 2026, Allschwil falls right into this peak — if you only have one weekend in the tri-border region, you have the widest choice here, but also the fullest rooms. The busiest day is a figure from the ConvivaPlus analysis: it can only be calculated when start AND end are documented for every location — which is why it appears in no organiser publication and no other overview.
Candle dipping nearby
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – no date carried over from last year.
People also ask
Related questions from our magazine
In the city of Basel: five recorded offerings, 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.
The limit is brevity: three days, only one of them with an evening. If you need more time, you will find five offerings with published runs in Basel.
Freshness note: 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 →
- ◆A date without a year can be proved: «Freitag 27 November» fits only one year within reach — 2026. The weekday is the stamp the source forgot. We check it instead of simply copying the number or leaving it out.
- ◆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.
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.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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The Allschwil parish gives its date without a year: «Freitag 27 November». That it means 2026 is given away by the weekday — 27 November is a Friday only in 2026.
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