Thuringia offers events and festivals on 24 and 25 October 2026, from a village kermesse to a ceramics symposium. The Eichenberg Kirmes in the Hildburghausen district runs to Sunday, with its dance on Saturday evening.
A beer tent stands on the village square. In Eichenberg, in the Hildburghausen district, the square hosts the Kirmes Eichenberg from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October. Thuringia offers events and festivals on 24 and 25 October 2026, from a village kermesse to a ceramics symposium. The Eichenberg Kirmes in the Hildburghausen district runs to Sunday, with its dance on Saturday evening.
Kirmes dance and Frühschoppen in the tent
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, a live dance band plays in the tent for the Kirmes dance. Sunday runs family-friendly, with a Frühschoppen (the traditional late-morning drink), lunch and afternoon music. Bratwurst, Schäufele and dumplings are on the plates, with beer from the region's breweries.
The Kirmes, also called Kerwa in southern Thuringia, goes back to the church consecration feast and is today a largely secular folk festival, run by the village association and attended by locals and guests from the region. Entry to the tent is free. Food and drink cost the usual festival prices. By car, take the A 73 to the Eisfeld-Süd exit.
Fairground rides in Gera, studios in Römhild
The Herbstvolksfest Gera also runs on Saturday 24 October on the fairground at the Hofwiesenpark and ends on 31 October. Carousels, roller coasters, water rides and a Ferris wheel stand there, and a food row with beer tents and sausage stalls feeds the crowd, while the city's cultural office organises the fair. Admission is free.
In Schloss Glücksburg in Römhild, eight ceramic artists from across Europe, chosen by a specialist jury, work at the XIII International Ceramics Symposium. The motto of this edition is "Metamorphosis". The symposium lasts until 31 October, and the castle and studios can be visited at the museum rate.
Around the main pond near Plothen, the Fish and Game Weeks in the Land of a Thousand Ponds run all October. Inns serve themed menus of fish and game, and there are guided nature tours and carriage rides through a pond landscape that goes back to Benedictine monks some 900 years ago.
Meiningen marks the Georgjahr 2026 for the 200th birthday of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen, the "Theatre Duke". The anniversary year runs to 31 December, and the special exhibition "Abgefahren in Meiningen", on the duke and the railway, opened on 21 August in the Dampflok-Erlebniswelt.
The clocks go back overnight from Saturday to Sunday: at 3 a.m. it becomes 2 a.m.