Like a string of pearls, the themed stations of the Weißeritz Valley Railway stretch from Freital-Hainsberg via Rabenau, Malter, Dippoldiswalde, Obercarsdorf and Schmiedeberg to the spa town of Kipsdorf. Simply get off where you like!
Ore Mountain traditions come to life in a Christmas atmosphere: Look over the shoulders of craftsmen, make your own incense candles, do handicrafts with your children and simply relax with a delicious mulled wine dippl by the fire. Let yourself be impressed by winter sports like in your grandfather's time or help push a pyramid.
Germany's oldest narrow-gauge railroad will take you from one Christmas market to the next.
When: 30.11. - 01.12.2024
Where: along the Weißeritz Valley Railway between Freital-Hainsberg and Kipsdorf
Opening times:
- 9.25 am - 8 pm
- hourly departures
- Open timetable (PDF)
Day ticket for the narrow-gauge railroad: 29 euros (children up to 14 years free)
Program at the stations along the way
Freital Hainsberg: Model railway exhibition
Freital Coßmannsdorf: discounted ice skating at the Hains leisure center
Cossmannsdorf ballrooms: children's bakery and stage program with dancing & singing with singer Linda Jung (Saturday)
Rabenau train station: "Candle workshop in the Rabenauer Grund"
- Make your own KNOX incense candles in the Weißeritztalbahn train carriage.
- Traders with Christmas gift ideas
- Decorate "Pulsnitz gingerbread" yourself
- Inn "Zum Wanderer": cozy mill Christmas with LED lighting, smoke effects & contemplative, Christmassy background music and homemade treats
Spechtritz train station: "Pyramid boost"
- Sale of Spechtritz honey and honey gifts
- Make and design beeswax candles
- Sunday: Traditional pyramid launch with the Rabenau trombone choir and Santa Claus
- Culinary highlight: Spechtritz fragrant slices, stollen and crêpes
Seifersdorf station: exhibition in the goods floor
Dippoldiswalde railroad station: "Craft market"
- Craft market in the railroad hotel with demonstrations
- Photo box station for sparkling memories
- "Garden railroad" model railway exhibition
- Santa Claus & Dippold bring a surprise to the little ones
- Christmas mile to the LOHGERBER MUSEUM & GALLERY Dippoldiswalde
- Saturday:
- Advent hour at the opening of the Christmas exhibition with the art and music school Dippoldiswalde e. V.
- Advent crafts
- Sunday:
- 11 am: Concert with the choir "Die Stimm'Reichen"
- 1 to 5 p.m.: Advent café in the "DDV-Lokal"
- 3.30 p.m.: Puppet theater to join in with Cornelia Oehler
Nikolaikirche Dippoldiswalde: Advent bazaar
- Handmade treasures and delicious treats from the community
- Christmas story presented with beautiful figures
- Presentation of the St. Nicholas story with a picture theater
Obercarsdorf Ulberndorf: "Herbal cookies & straw star making"
Obercarsdorf train station: "Snow drifts"
- Saturday: Music from the "Pusteblume" daycare center, dance performance by the OCKK spark guard, brass band concert
- Sunday: Hermsdorf trombone choir and fire show, lantern procession to the 1st Advent door
Schmiedeberg railroad station: "When the Peramett turns"
Kipsdorf railroad station: "Christmas Land"
- Christmas lights at fire bowls with stick bread, mulled wine, barbecue, coffee & cake
- Gingerbread blanks to design yourself, face painting, balloon modeling, VVO bag printing, photo box for great Christmas photo fun, Mobilius, Santa Claus and friends
- Christmas live music with the Poisentaler Blasmusikanten
All information from VERKEHRSVERBUND Oberelbe