Candle dipping St. Gallen: the tent changed host and place — and the old page shows 2025
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
For 35 years the candle-dipping tent in St. Gallen was a Cevi affair by the station. Neither is true any more. Check the Cevi page today and you find the 2025 dates — the 2026 date is only with the new host. And the new host has added a second candle dipping in the city.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Two events across 16 days – on 10 of them you can choose between two.
Kerzenziehzelt am Sternenmarkt
✓Saturday, 28 November 2026 – Sunday, 13 December 2026 · 16 days
- Organiser
- Katholisches Dom Zentrum mit der Jugendarbeit und der reformierten Cityseelsorge
Source: kathsg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
Kerzenziehen im Pfarreiheim St. Fiden
✓Wednesday, 2 December 2026 – Sunday, 13 December 2026 · open 10 of 12 days
- Organiser
- Kerzenziehen im Pfarreiheim St. Fiden (Katholische Kirche St. Gallen)
Source: kathsg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Monday to Friday 12:00–18:00 · Saturday and Sunday 11:00–17:00 · schools from middle level Monday to Friday 09:00–12:00 by booking
Wednesday to Friday 14:00–19:00 · Saturday and Sunday 10:00–19:00 · closed Monday and Tuesday
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🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Gallusstrasse 16, 9000 St. Gallen
- Nearest stop
- St. Gallen, Stiftsbezirk (BUS) — 176 m as the crow flies
- Meeting point
- Pfarreiheim St. Fiden, 9000 St. Gallen
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
📋 Good to know before you go
- The 2026 edition is now published by the Catholic Church of St. Gallen itself; the old Cevi page still shows the 2025 dates. Groups by booking only.
- Candles are dipped in 60 % beeswax, charged at CHF 5.– per 100 g. Groups by booking only; schools from middle level Monday to Friday 09:00–12:00.
- Anyone searching for the «Cevi candle dipping by the station» is searching for an event that no longer exists under that organisation or in that place.
- School classes and other groups on request, also outside opening hours.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
Some events you do not search for — you know them: the Cevi, the tent, the station, every Advent. Those are exactly the ones that disappear most quietly. No cancellation notice — the host changes, the place changes, and memory keeps leading people to the old address.
Where do you dip in St. Gallen?
One click – anonymous, no sign-up required.
📊 Season comparison with nearby places
None of the 2 neighbours in the chart ends later.
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.
- St. GallenKerzenziehzelt am Sternenmarkt · Kerzenziehen im Pfarreiheim St. Fiden
- TeufenAR
Candle dipping nearby
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – no date carried over from last year.
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In Winterthur several offerings have published runs, including school slots and public days.
Because we only show verified dates as dates.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For St. Gallen locals with childhood memories this is the region's most important page: it explains why the search for the old event leads nowhere and names the two places where it happens today. The tent is central and open every day, St. Fiden quieter and longer at weekends.
If you have the choice: weekdays over lunch in the tent, weekends in St. Fiden. Further afield, published runs await in Winterthur.
When we last checked: Both places, runs, opening hours and the price come from the Catholic Church of St. Gallen's page (kathsg.ch), source read on 5 October 2026. The change of host is stated on the Cevi St. Gallen page, which still shows the 2025 edition of the dipping. Until early October St. Gallen was listed here as «open» rather than filled with those dates from last year.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – St. Gallen →
- ◆The old page is the most dangerous information: it is still there, shows «29. November - 14. Dezember 2025» and looks like a date. Copy it for 2026 and you make people miss the first day — and stand in front of a dismantled tent on 14 December.
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of St. Gallen
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 37 of the 52 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 13 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.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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St. Gallen's second candle dipping, in the parish hall in the east of the city: red paraffin or beeswax, with a café corner — and at weekends from 10:00 to 19:00, nine hours straight.
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🕯️ Candle dipping · 5 October 2026