The second CSD Nordhausen opens with a rally on the Bahnhofsvorplatz at 13:30 on Saturday 12 September 2026. The demonstration then moves through the city centre, and a closing rally runs from 16:30 to 19:00 with information stands, food, a programme for families and live music. Local reporting by nnz-online puts the first edition, held in July 2025, at around 300 people, so this is a small day and the numbers are part of what it is about. The motto for 2026, "Wir sind hier noch nicht fertig!", says as much.
The evening has a programme of its own. An aftershow party starts at 20:00 at Kleine Freiheit, Freundschaftsstraße 2, with three DJs booked: Kati Haller, Polly Saint Cado and EXM. Entry is free. The organisers ask people to bring cash, because nothing else is taken on the door or at the bar, which is worth knowing in a town where that is not the usual assumption for visitors.
The whole day is organised by the Queeres Netzwerk Nordhausen with local initiatives, on a volunteer basis. Both the meeting point and the party are in the centre, and the day starts on the station forecourt, which makes it straightforward to arrive by train and leave the same evening. Anyone who does want to stay should book rather than arrive and look: we list no hotels, bars or clubs in Nordhausen at all, which is the ordinary situation for a Thuringian town of this size and part of why the CSD exists.
The same Saturday is busy in the region. CSD Halle (Saale) is about 80 km east and starts from the Marktplatz at 13:00, so the two cannot be combined. The third CSD in Bad Belzig follows on 19 September and CSD Gera on 26 September, both within a couple of hours of Nordhausen.
Germany scores 69.54 out of 100 on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index. Marriage and joint adoption have been law since 1 October 2017, and a ban on conversion practices for minors since 2020. Our country page for Germany sets out the rest, and it is worth reading alongside the fact that most of the CSDs on this September weekend are in small towns rather than the cities that usually stand for the country.