Winter lights in Mannheim’s Luisenpark

Winter Lights extended to Sunday February 16

It was perhaps to be expected that the 50th anniversary Winter Lights – Mannheim’s parks are celebrating this year – would be particularly attractive, but it seems that even more people have found their way to Luisenpark to visit the light spectacle than in the record year of 2024. Due to the strong interest shown by visitors, the management has once again decided to extend the major event by two weeks until February 16, 2025.

“The extension of the Winter Lights has almost become a tradition,” says Michael Schnellbach, Managing Director of the Mannheim city parks Luisenpark and Herzogenriedpark, commenting on his decision. “Of course, we had hoped that the event would be well received, as the light artists made a special effort for the park’s anniversary and creatively incorporated the theme into the installations,” Schnellbach continues. “But I wouldn’t have thought that things would go so exorbitantly well and that we would even have topped the results of the same time in the record year 2024 at this point in time,” Schnellbach admits enthusiastically. So an extension was simply an obvious choice.

According to the Stadtpark management, it is also pleasing that visitors are now taking up the offer to purchase their tickets in advance in the online store very well, which has significantly reduced the queues at the ticket offices.

Mannheim’s largest park continues to shine a little longer. Anyone who has not yet seen these special winter lights still has the chance to do so until February 16. Meanwhile, we can look forward to the final visitor figures.

The 2025 light pictures are called “Herzenssache”, “Cocktailstunde”, “Wellenlänge” or “Imagine…” after the unforgettable John Lennon song, because it’s still all about love and peace on our planet. This year, “Bubbleblast 75” and the “Love & Peace” projection on a water mist surface will be particularly impressive in reference to the park’s 50th anniversary. Other video projections with beautiful impressions are reminiscent of the BUGA 1975.

The light route in the western part of the park
While last year the installations were mainly located around the new park center, the 2025 light route covers the entire western part of the park. From the main entrance, the route follows a wide, long circular path to the Lanzvilla entrance. It then “turns around” at the garden chess set, past the lakeside restaurant towards the lake stage and back through the new park center. The end point is again the main entrance.

For anyone who gets hungry or shivery halfway through, Rick’s winter village with its rustic and beautiful wooden stalls provides warmth from the inside. A few hundred meters further on, visitors can also make a detour to the lakeside restaurant, which is also open.

Background Winter Lights
Every evening for a few weeks in winter, a fantastic, glittering world is created in Luisenpark Mannheim, in which the treetops and shrubs, the artistic statues, the area around the fountain landscape and mountain stream as well as the banks of the southern Kutzerweiher pond shine in the light of enchanting illuminations. With hundreds of spotlights, dozens of projectors, numerous video beamers and thousands of LED lights, the light artists around Wolfgang Flammersfeld create a fairy-tale, mystical atmosphere every year, taking care to use energy-saving lights as far as possible. The special features are self-made light objects and imaginative, floating light figures. This year, the team around Jürgen Flammersfeld and Rouven Bönisch will be at the start as usual, creating magic with light!

From 1.1. (6 pm) – 16.2.2025 (11 pm) Luisenpark Mannheim

TICKETS HERE -: https://shop.luisenpark.de/winterlichter

Opening hours
Sundays to Thursdays from 6 to 9 pm Fridays & Saturdays & on 5.1.2025 from 6 to 10 pm. 
Ticket office closes one hour before the end of the event.
From 2 p.m. admission and park stay only with a valid Winter Lights ticket!
The park opens at 9 am. The ticket offices in Luisenpark open at 10 a.m. in January and February and are open until 8 p.m. during the Winter Lights.

Special: Annual pass holders with a Herzogenriedpark annual pass can also visit the Winter Lights at a reduced price!
Family passes, other cooperations and other discounts do not apply.