Open day at Schloss Bellevue
on 9 September 2023
Important information
for your visit
Opening hours and admission
You will also have a chance to visit the citizens’ festival on the open day at Schloss Bellevue.
The open day at Schloss Bellevue will take place on 9 September 2023 from 11.00 to 19.00.
You must book an additional ticket in advance to visit Schloss Bellevue. Tickets are free of charge.
Click here to book your ticket.
Please present your ticket at the entrance so that you can be admitted at the time stated. Please note that you may have to wait for up to 30 minutes to have your ticket checked. You will not be admitted outside of the time slot that you have booked. This time slot can be found on your ticket.
Please carry photographic ID with you, as random checks may be carried out.
If you have any questions or problems, you will find assistance at the information stands, the cloakrooms or in the grounds.
You will find other important information about the open day at Schloss Bellevue on Saturday, 9 September 2023, on this website.
Opening hours and admission
The Federal President’s citizens’ festival will take place on 9 September 2023 from 11.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Please book tickets for your visit.. Tickets for the citizens’ festival are free of charge.
Click here to book your ticket.
Please present your ticket at the entrance so that you can be admitted at the time stated. Please note that you may have to wait for up to 30 minutes to have your ticket checked. You will not be admitted outside of the time slot that you have booked. This time slot can be found on your ticket.
Please carry photographic ID with you, as random checks may be carried out.
At the info points at our cloakrooms as well as on the premises you can get information in case of questions and problems.
Arrival and parking
We recommend travelling to the festival using public transport. The bus lines 100 and 187 stop very near Schloss Bellevue (at the stop Großer Stern).
From the SBahn station Bellevue you can reach Schloss Bellevue in around 7 minutes. No car parking is available. Bicycle parking spaces can be found opposite Schloss Bellevue.
Address: Spreeweg 1, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
If you are travelling to the citizens’ festival from another region, you may be interested in the special offers provided by our mobility partners Flixbus and Deutsche Bahn.
With the Deutsche Bahn’s Veranstaltungsticket (“event ticket”), you can go green for your trip to the 2023 citizens’ festival and travel there and back from any Deutsche Bahn station for a fixed price (only valid in combination with your booked admission ticket for the festival).
Veranstaltungsticket one way, valid for the booked train only (available while stocks last):
• 1st class €84.90 (inc. seat reservation)
• 2nd class €51.90
Veranstaltungsticket one way, fully flexible (always available):
• 1st class €106.90 (inc. seat reservation)
• 2nd class €72.90
If you have any technical questions, please call the service number +49 (0) 30 58 60 20 901.
Book your Deutsche Bahn Veranstaltungsticket for the 2023 citizens’ festival here
Travel CO2 footprint calculator
To estimate the CO2 emissions from your travel to and from the citizens’ festival, you can use our CO2 footprint calculator.
Please enter the details of your planned outward and return journeys (including the primary means of transport you intend to use) and click on “Submit”. “Submit”. Your estimated CO2 emissions will be stored in anonymised form and will help to calculate the total expected CO2 emissions caused by the 2023 citizens’ festival.
Security checks
For security reasons, ID checks and bag checks will be carried out. Bags that are no bigger than an A4 sheet of paper may be taken into the park. All other bags can be left in the cloakrooms at the entrance.
You are not permitted to bring the following items into the park:
- Glass bottles
- Plastic bottles larger than 1 litre – except baby bottles
- Drones
- Balloons
- Bicycles, scooters, skateboards or similar
- Flags and banners
- Weapons of any kind
- Pepper spray or similar
- Drugs, alcohol, narcotics
- Sharp or pointed objects
- Explosives, incendiary or caustic substances, poisons or similar
Tour of Schloss Bellevue
Schloss Bellevue will be open for tours. Please follow the signs in the garden of Schloss Bellevue to the entrance on the garden side. No additional tickets are needed for the tour
Children
Changing tables are provided in the toilets. Children and teenagers below the age of 16 may only enter the festival site when accompanied by an adult.
Paying for the purchase of food and drink
All stands will accept cash. Almost all will also take card payments.
Accessibility
Schloss Bellevue and the festival site are fully accessible with very few exceptions. You can find more information here.
Pets
It is not permitted to bring pets to the festival. Excepted from this are guide dogs and other assistance dogs.
Environmental protection
Please keep the garden clean, stay sustainable by generating as little rubbish as possible, and use the rubbish containers provided.
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted indoors. You may smoke in the designated smoking areas in the garden of Schloss Bellevue.
Data protection: Photography and sound & video recording
At this event hosted by the Federal President, photographs and film recordings will be taken in which you or your children may appear. By visiting Schloss Bellevue and its garden, you consent to the use of these photographs and film recordings for the Federal President’s public relations work (including brochures, webpages, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). You can find information about data protection and your rights in our privacy policy.
