Event highlight for those with a sweet tooth at the chocolate festival
Selected top manufacturers from Germany also showcase a selection of their highest quality chocolates. As a chocolate fan, you should not miss this event, which takes place every year at the beginning of December around the old town of Tübingen! Come to Tübingen for the chocolate festival and stay at the Krone Tübingen right in the city center.
The question of all questions can be answered quite clearly: at the chocolate market in Tübingen, which is held on the historic market square against the backdrop of the illuminated half-timbered houses in the run-up to Christmas. Whether pralines, drinking chocolate or classic chocolates, many of the products on the more than 100 national and international stalls are made from fair-trade raw materials. Vegan products are also available at the Chocolate Festival – so all tastes and needs are catered for, so there is certainly something for everyone.
&Opening times Schokomarkt Tübingen
The chocolate market in Tübingen öffnet opens its doors between 2.12.2025 to 7.12.2025.
Even apart from the products on sale, everything revolves around the cocoa bean and its products. Experience how diverse chocolate can be and what you can do with it. Cocoa Painting Cocoa painting creates true works of art using only chocolate, cocoa and oil. If you want to try your hand at it yourself, the chocolate course gives you the opportunity to make your own little chocolates. You decide which ingredients your chocolate contains. In no time at all, you can make unusual chocolates at home, an extravagant Christmas gift or for snacking yourself.
You can also enjoy specially prepared chocolate specialties in many of the surrounding restaurants. A special tip is the roast wild boar with chocolate sauce and Spätzle from the Tübingen Lions Club – a special for chocolate lovers who are looking for something special.
Für children s chocolate dreams come true in the mobile chocolate workshop . Here they create their own chocolate varieties and even design the packaging themselves. Your little ones can make all kinds of chocolate products in the chocolate workshop directly in front of the collegiate church and give free rein to their creativity.
Other chocolaty program items include the Gläserne Konditorei, where top confectioners from Germany can be watched live over the shoulder. At the chocolate tasting a portion of new taste experiences awaits you and at the numerous chocolate presentations and readings you will learn everything about the cocoa bean, which the Maya already claimed to be of divine origin.
In Hotel Krone you are just a stone's throw away from the traditional old town of the university town of Tübingen. Just cross Eberhardsbrücke and in less than 10 minutes you are directly on the market square and thus in the center of the chocolate festival.
Spend a few days at Hotel Krone in the run-up to Christmas and visit the chocolate market in the university city on the Neckar!