Herbstmarkt
14–15 September 2026
Two days in mid-September
Two days on the Marktplatz in mid-September, listed by the market office and by nobody else.
Monthly market
A wider market laid over the weekly one, on a handful of Mondays through the summer.
In 273 days
14 June 2027 · 09:00 bis 15:00 Uhr
On a few dates across the summer the market square carries more than its usual weekday trade — the standing weekly market, broadened out with everything it does not normally sell.
Flowers and plants, regional food, floristry and craft work, toys, ceramics, gifts, costume jewellery, leather goods, clothing, small textiles and a long tail of ordinary household things. The weekly market sells what you eat this week; the monthly one sells what you furnish a life with, which makes it a different kind of browse on the same stones.
It runs a handful of times a year on the same square, from nine to three, and it is not advertised to visitors — the city lists it in its market calendar and nowhere else. That makes it one of the few mornings when the square is doing its actual job rather than performing for anyone.
14–15 September 2026
Two days in mid-September
Two days on the Marktplatz in mid-September, listed by the market office and by nobody else.
10 October 2026 · Hauptlauf 12:15 Uhr, Staffel 12:25 Uhr
The Saturday of the Onion Market, in October
Eleven kilometres through the old town and the Ilm park, run on the Saturday of the Onion Market.
9–11 October 2026
The second weekend in October, every year
Thuringia's oldest and largest folk festival, held on the second weekend of October since 1653.
24 November 2026 – 3 January 2027
Late November to the first days of January, every year
Four squares of Christmas market from late November into the new year, with an ice rink at the theatre.