Blick von oben auf das Zelt-Musik-Festival — ZMF Klaus Polkoski

Freiburg's top 10 events

All year round: sport, culture, pleasure

The annual calendar with the most important top events shows just how many facets Freiburg has to offer:
In summer, there's plenty of culture and culinary delights, while in spring and late summer, major events such as Mein Marathon or the La Reine cycling race attract athletes to the city.
And in the winter months, you can bake biscuits at the Christmas market in Freiburg's old town or find moments of peace and quiet - and soon after, satisfy your wanderlust at the world's largest lecture festival.
Discover Freiburg from different angles at these top 10 events!

At a glance

The next top events in Freiburg

Freiburg's event calendar is well-stocked with concerts, festivals, sporting events, etc. What you can experience here next:

Event
MUNDOLOGIA seminar: Better travel photography
- Samstag, 22.11.2025
- 10:00 clock
- Pop, rock & jazz
- Concerts
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Event
Münsterplatz concert 2025: Mozart gala with Jeanine De Bique & Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
- Sonntag, 31.08.2025
- 20:00 clock
- Classical
- Concerts
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Event
Plaza Culinaria 2022
- Freitag, 07.11.2025
- 14:00 clock
- Exhibition for tradespeople and consumers
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Event
TEST VA Fashion & Food Festival
- Donnerstag, 25.09.2025
- 17:00 clock
- Festivals
- Freiburg Fashion Days
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May to September

Enjoy the summer with culture, picnics & music

In summer, this city has a very special flair: discover the typical Freiburg feeling at a picnic by the iconic Bächle, with a glass of Baden wine in your hand or in the museum - these are the most important summer events in the city:

From May: Bächle picnic
Freiburg erLEBEN
Bächle
Where is this place?
A special experience at the Bächle
The most beautiful picnic in town
Put your feet in the refreshing water and enjoy a few tasty treats - the popular Bächle picnic is complete. Of course, you can organise this yourself at any time, but you can also book it on selected dates through the provider Freiburg erLEBEN. They will arrange a box full of local specialities for you - vegetarian options available on request - which you can pick up at the Museum Educational Workshop on the Gerberau, next to the Feierling beer garden. Turned upside down and placed over the stream, the crate then becomes a comfortable picnic table.
Book a Bächle picnic!
July: Freiburg Wine Festival
FWTM Polkowski
Münsterplatz
Where is this place?
Wine, sparkling wine and Baden specialities
A gourmet festival with a view of the cathedral
For six days in July, you can get to know the wine-growing regions of Baden in a very special way: at the wine festival around Freiburg Minster, you can stroll past the stands with a glass in your hand, which are set up by winegrowers from the Markgräflerland, Breisgau, Kaiserstuhl and other important growing areas in the region. You can sample over 400 wines and sparkling wines here - as well as regional delicacies from cheese spaetzle to tarte flambée and Black Forest gateau.
Experience the wine festival!
July: Freiburg Museum Night
FWTM Bender
Augustinermuseum
Where is this place?
At night in the museum
The cultural highlight of the summer
Explore ten different cultural locations with one ticket: On Freiburg Museum Night, the five municipal museums and five other institutions open their doors late into the night. There is also an accompanying programme that allows you to get to know the museums from a completely different perspective - for example, when pop songs suddenly start playing on the Welte organ in the Augustian museum or the dance floor opens in the Münsterbauhütte (cathedral workshop). Various guided tours and hands-on activities are on offer, and there's good food and drinks everywhere.
July & August: Tent Music Festival
ZMF Klaus Polkowski
Zelt Musik Festival
Where is this place?
From rock to jazz to classical music
Music on a greenfield site
From mid-July, this festival offers a packed programme of music for three weeks: Rock and pop, jazz and blues, classical music, as well as dance and variety will take to the stages. And what stages! Several tents - from the imposing circus tent to the open mound tent - are set up for the festival seven kilometres outside the city, on the green meadow of the Mundenhof animal enclosure. Starting out as a small pop-up event in 1983, the Tent Music Festival has established itself as Freiburg's most important music event over more than four decades.
To the Tent Music Festival
September: Fashion and Food Festival
FWTM Muranyi
Münsterplatz
Where is this place?
The city as a catwalk
Where fashion & pleasure have a stage
A catwalk for illustrious fashion shows will be set up on Münsterplatz, live music and performances await you in Rathausgasse and a colourful circus programme for the whole family awaits you at the Kartoffelmarkt: at the Fashion & Food Festival, Freiburg city centre will provide a large and colourful stage for fashion and indulgence for three days. In the shops and boutiques, especially on Augustinerplatz and in the Schneckenvorstadt district, there will be lots of activities as well as plenty of food stalls and special gastronomic offers.
To the Fashion and Food Festival

September: La Reine

Road bike marathon for women

Participants in this marathon, which is exclusively open to women, feel like la reine herself, i.e. a queen. Starting in Freiburg city centre, the route covers either 100 or 170 kilometres through the Markgräflerland and Kaiserstuhl wine regions, finishing at the Schlossberg (castle hill) in the Kastaniengarten; regional specialities and drinks are offered at gourmet stations along the way. So that these can be savoured in peace and quiet, the time is not taken from start to finish, but on individual sections of the route.

Info about La Reine

Radfahrerinnern im Schwarzwald la Reine — Female Cycling Organization

November: Plaza Culinaria

A trade fair for enjoyment

Every year in November, tens of thousands of people are drawn to Freiburg's most important gourmet trade fair:
For three days, you can taste your way through more than 300 exhibitors at the Plaza Culinaria at Messe Freiburg, ranging from beer and wine to chocolate, tea and coffee, Black Forest specialities and vegan products. Since 2024, the trade fair has also been open late into the night at Plaza Late Night.

Experience the Plaza Culinaria!

November & December: Christmas market

Light and treats for the Advent season

It all kicks off on the Monday before the first Advent: until the day before Christmas Eve, over 120 stalls at seven locations in Freiburg's Old Town offer their wares - handicrafts and culinary delights, mulled wine and gift ideas. The Freiburg Christmas market, which was first held in 1973, has now spread to Rathausplatz and Kartoffelmarkt, Unterlindenplatz, Franziskanerstrasse, Turmstrasse and Rotteckring. There are now highlights for all generations: Children enjoy baking their own biscuits in the Christmas bakery at the potato market, while others are drawn to the impressively illuminated Colombischlössle. And for those looking for a moment of peace and quiet in between: An Advent meditation is offered every day at 5.30 pm from 1 December in St. Martin's Church on Rathausplatz.

All about Freiburg's Christmas market

Weihnachtsmarkt Freiburg bei Nacht — FWTM Bender

Konzerthaus

Where is this place?

January: Mundologia Festival

Around the world in exciting lectures

Mundologia is the Spanish word for world knowledge - and this is exactly what Freiburg photojournalist Tobias Hauser and underwater photographer David Hettich want to convey with their festival of the same name.
Since 2004, it has developed into the largest lecture festival in the world; photographers and journalists, mountaineers and world travellers report on their adventures for four days in front of a good 20,000 visitors. Parallel to the lectures, there is a travelling and photography fair on three floors of the Konzerthaus (concert hall) in Freiburg.

To the Mundologia Festival

April: My Freiburg Marathon

Running with music - and a Maultaschen party!

How do athletes in Freiburg top up their carbohydrate reserves before and after the marathon? Of course: with a Maultaschen party. This is included in the entry fee for the Mein Marathon, which over 12,300 runners take part in every year in April, starting at Messe Freiburg. If you want to run a shorter distance, you can also register for the 10-kilometre run or half marathon. And another charming and typical Freiburg extra: the sports event is also a music highlight: several bands and DJs heat up the runners along the way.

My Freiburg Marathon