Thuringia has events and festivals on October 31 and November 1, 2026, from village fairs to the Bach Festival. The Liquid Sound Festival in Bad Sulza runs from Saturday 6 p.m. to Sunday 9 a.m. in the salt-water spa.
Under the dome of the Toskana Therme. In the salt-water spa of Bad Sulza, in the Weimarer Land district, the 24th Liquid Sound Festival starts on Saturday, October 31. Thuringia has events and festivals on October 31 and November 1, 2026, from village fairs to the Bach Festival. The Liquid Sound Festival in Bad Sulza runs from Saturday 6 p.m. to Sunday 9 a.m. in the salt-water spa.
Fifteen hours in the salt-water spa
The Liquid Sound Festival at the Toskana Therme in Bad Sulza turns the spa pool into a concert hall. It starts on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. and ends on Sunday, November 1, at 9:00 a.m. In between, live concerts, electronic sets, visual art and underwater sound run without a break.
The headliner is Joshua Sam Miller with “Sounds of the Ocean”, a journey in sound and image through the world's oceans. Live music meets visual art and original underwater recordings of whales and dolphins, while light and video projections travel across the dome of the spa.
Underwater speakers carry the music into the pool, and the live musicians play on a stage above the water. Smaller DJ and live sets by the Liquid Sound Club acts join in, and the night ends in the morning with music at the bistro bar.
There is no separate festival ticket: the visit is included in the regular spa admission.
Kirmes in the Wartburgkreis, Bach in Eisenach
In the Heimatscheune of Nazza, Saturday is the main festival day of the Nazzaer Kirmes, now in its 155th edition, with a dance evening and a live band until late at night. Sunday belongs to families, with a Frühschoppen, lunch and a programme for children and seniors. The Kirmes Buttlar, part of the Franconian Kirchweih tradition, puts a dance band on the fairground on Saturday evening, and on Sunday a parade with floats, costume groups and a brass band moves through the village. Admission to Buttlar is free.
In Eisenach the Bachfest runs until Sunday, its tenth edition, under the motto “100 Years of the Bachchor Eisenach”. Saturday is Reformation Day and a public holiday in Thuringia. That day brings a cantata service in the Georgenkirche, “Rameau meets ABBA” with the Lauttencompagney on period instruments, and a special concert at the Wartburg. On Sunday at 5:00 p.m. the vocal ensemble SLIXS closes the festival. The cantata services are free.
On the festival ground at the Hofwiesenpark in Gera, the Herbstvolksfest Gera ends on Saturday with its closing fireworks. Several showmen stage a Halloween programme around October 31, with pumpkin decorations, costume actions and sweets for children. The fairground charges no admission.
The Weimarer Rendez-vous mit der Geschichte continues until Sunday on the theme Fact or Fake, with panel discussions, talks, city tours, film screenings and a pub quiz, free of charge. The festival centre is the youth and culture centre mon ami on Goetheplatz.
Burg Posterstein in the Altenburger Land district invites visitors to the 4th Geistertag on Halloween Saturday. From 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. a puzzle trail based on real criminal cases from the castle's court room leads through the grounds. From 8:00 p.m. classics of horror fiction are read in the Schöffenstuhl; the reading costs 15 euros with a welcome drink, and seats are limited and need advance booking.
Saturday is the last day of the 13th International Ceramics Symposium at Schloss Glücksburg in Römhild, where eight ceramic artists from across Europe have been working since October 5 under the motto “Metamorphosis”. Castle and studios are open at the museum rate. The Fish and Game Weeks in the Land of a Thousand Ponds around the main pond near Plothen run until the same day, with themed menus in the inns, guided nature tours and carriage rides.
From Bad Sulza station, the Toskana Therme is about a ten-minute walk.