The temperatures are dropping, the days are getting shorter – and yet everything around us is glowing in golden colors: it’s autumn, the season of change. In Berlin, we can enjoy it to the fullest with a variety of indoor and outdoor activities for every taste: whether it’s putting your feet up and warming up in one of the city’s beautiful saunas or admiring the picturesque autumn landscape from a 40-metre-high observation tower near Berlin. But one thing is just as much a part of autumn as golden-red leaves, rough weather and warm tea – pumpkins! Visiting pumpkin farms and festivals is one of the best things to do in October
. We have put together the best pumpkin events in Berlin and the surrounding area for you!
1st pumpkin show in Brandenburg
You can admire a whole 100,000 pumpkins in every imaginable color and shape in the Brandenburg village of Klaistow. It’s a good 60 km away from the city, but it’s definitely worth a visit. In addition to the largest pumpkin exhibition in the whole of Brandenburg, the village itself is also a real eye-catcher and is a listed building due to its considerable age. In addition to pumpkin figures, you can expect a selection of around 500 varieties from all over the world and a farm store where you can buy all kinds of pumpkin products.
📌Address: Klaistow asparagus and adventure farm | Glindower Straße 28, 14547 Beelitz
2nd Schöneberg Pumpkin Festival
On 4 and 5 October, Berlin celebrates the 26th Schöneberg Pumpkin Festival, which transforms Akazienstraße into a colorful autumn paradise. Over 10,000 pumpkins in 20 varieties and 140 exhibitors with art, jewelry, fashion and culinary delights await you. Local restaurateurs serve soups, cakes, quiches and lasagnas, as well as wines, liqueurs and other specialties. The festival is a crowd puller in the middle of Berlin and perfect for families, couples or friends who want to enjoy the fall. It is open on Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm and on Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm.
📌Address: Schöneberger Kürbisfest | Akazienstraße 01-30, 10823 Berlin
3rd Karl’s spooky October market
Karl’s adventure villages are better known in Berlin’s collective memory for their strawberries, but in October they are also haunted! Around Halloween, the village is transformed into a spooky theme park with scary decorations, terrifying attractions and, of course, a pumpkin market! You can also try all kinds of dishes that feature the round fruit vegetable!
📌Address: Karls-Erlebnisdorf Elstal | Döberitzer Heide 1, Elstal
4. pumpkins from the Syringhof farm
A good hour’s drive outside Berlin is a small farm store in the village of Zauchwitz. Here, too, the farmer displays his proudest varieties, which are also processed into interesting delicacies such as candied pumpkin seeds. If you don’t want to make the arduous journey, you can conveniently order the products online!
📌Address: Syringhof | Trebbiner Straße 69f, Beelitz
5. pumpkins in the stork village
The village is usually better known for its nature reserve than for pumpkin farms, as many storks nest here every spring. In the fall, however, it’s all about the pumpkin harvest, the rich yield of which is sold in the farm store.
📌Address: Farm store at Rixmanns Hof | Nauener Straße 23a, Linum