Dresdner Striezelmarkt

In the organizer's words:

Typical Striezelmarkt

Dresden's Striezelmarkt is not only the oldest Christmas market in Germany, it is also one of the most famous in the world. A very special feature and annual reason for joy: the loving and individual design of the individual stalls. In addition, the wide range of products on offer, from arts and crafts from the Ore Mountains to home-baked Stollen or the popular Dresden Kräppelchen, Christmas sounds and the typical Saxon coziness ... All of this together casts a spell over young and old and makes everyone's heart beat faster. A visit to the Striezelmarkt - that's definitely CHRISTMAS in Dresden!

What makes the Striezelmarkt unique?

Dresden's Striezelmarkt is regularly voted the favorite Christmas market in the German-speaking world. It is also considered the oldest Christmas market in Germany. This visitor magnet attracts visitors with other superlatives, such as the world's largest 14.61-metre-high step pyramid from the Ore Mountains, probably the world's largest walk-in candle arch and a daily Christmas cultural program for young and old.

A real heartbreaker: the popular plum potato. Nobody can resist the wrinkly little figure when it smiles mischievously at the person under its top hat. The loving handiwork can be seen in every millimetre of this fruity doll on wooden legs.

And anything but particularly large - but all the more romantic: the historic Ferris wheel. A ride on it is a bit like traveling back in time, when you can happily look out over the glittering huts of the Striezelmarkt with candy floss in your hand, the smell of roasted almonds in your nose and a barrel organ playing softly from somewhere.