The about 5,000 protesters are protesting against the government's strategy to stop the spread of infection, measures that are considered too far-reaching.
When the participants, despite several urgings, refused to wear mouth guards, the police decided to disband the crowd.
Germany's so-called Querdenker movement (literally "cross-thinker"), which is skeptical of covid restrictions, is a motley crowd.
At the demonstrations, right-wing extremists, vaccine skeptics and conspiracy theorists come together, but also the occasional ordinary citizen who is dissatisfied with, for example, the requirement to wear a mouth guard.
During a protest with tens of thousands of participants in Berlin in August, a small group tried to storm the Riksdag, something that caused consternation and anger in Germany.