Royal Winter Magic
22 November 2024 - 6. January 2025
With elaborate decorations, magical illuminations and a Christmas programme, Hohenzollern Castle awaits you for the Royal Winter Magic from 22 November 2024 to 6 January 2025.
The Royal Winter Magic is not a Christmas market, but a very elaborately designed special exhibition inside and outside the castle. Instead of stall charm and crowds, it offers a Christmas atmosphere in a historical setting. In the Count's Hall, a twelve-metre-long table will be on display with original service and silver from imperial stocks, flanked by a seven-metre-high Christmas tree. But the other chambers will also be enchantingly decorated. Visitors can explore them at will and let themselves be carried away into the Christmas world of royalty and majesties. There will also be an exhibition on the history of glass Christmas decorations in the Catholic castle chapel.
As dusk falls, the façades in the castle courtyard are regularly illuminated on a large scale. This is also where court juggler Klausi Klücklich releases shimmering soap bubbles into the night sky accompanied by the scent of mulled wine and waffles. Every now and then, Father Christmas or his little helpers drop by and the puppets dance on Cinderella's puppet stage on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and daily during the holidays.
The castle's restaurant offers special Winter Magic Menus on advance booking and in the castle garden small groups can enjoy hearty treats in heated themed huts. In addition, Café Kira on the 3rd floor invites you to enjoy coffee and cake in a cosy living room atmosphere.
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OPENING TIMES
Duration | 22.11.2024 - 06.01.2025 |
Sunday to Thursday | 15:00 - 20:00 hrs |
Friday and Saturday | 15:00 - 21:00 hrs |
from 25.12.2024 daily | 15:00 - 21:00 hrs |
Outside this times Hohenzollern Castle is closed.
Days of rest:
25 + 26 November 2024 + 02 + 03 + 09 + 10 + 16 + 24 + 31 December 2024 + 01 January 2025
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ENTRANCE FEES| TICKETS
Prices for online tickets
There are a limited number of online tickets per day that can be booked for a specific day with a specific one-hour admission time slot. This time slot is simply the time within which you must have your ticket scanned at the castle entrance gate and has nothing to do with the length of stay.
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Adults / Pensioners | 23,00 € | |
Reduced price (disabled persons, students 18+) | 13,00 € | |
Children (12 -17 years; children up to 11 years are free) | 11,00 € | |
Family ticket (2 adults + own children up to 17 years) | 47,00 € |
The online tickets already include the parking and shuttle bus fee.
Experience shows that the Royal Winter Magic is booked up quickly, especially on weekends before 6 pm, due to the limited ticket contingents. We therefore recommend that you also consider visiting later in the evening or on weekdays.
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GASTRONOMY
The castle's gastronomy invites to Christmas delicacies:
- In the Café Restaurant you are welcome to reserve a table to enjoy one of our winter menus.
- In the castle garden, winter-decorated and heated huts can be rented on site (reservation in advance not possible), where small groups of up to 6 people are served mulled wine and winter delicacies.
- In addition, Café Kira on the 3rd floor invites you to coffee & cake on a donation basis. The donations go to the Freundeskreis der Burg Hohenzollern e.V. and to the Kira Foundation.
The opening hours of the castle gastronomy during the time of the Royal Winter Magic are based on the above-mentioned opening hours of the Winter Magic. We ask for your understanding that the gastronomy is also closed outside these times. For enquiries and reservations, please contact the Café Restaurant on 07471-2345 or by email.
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SHUTTLE BUS
The shuttle busses from HVB Wiest & Schürmann are on duty during the Royal Winter Magic from 14:45 hrs between parking lot P1 and the castle's entrance gate. The busses run approximately every 10 minutes. The last shuttle from the castle down to the parking lot is 30 minutes after the end of the Royal Magic of Advent in each case.
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Photos and videos will be taken during this event and published as part of press coverage (TV, print media, digital media, social media). If you do not wish to be photographed/filmed, please feel free to contact the camera staff.
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