Bayreuth

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Beyreuth

 

banners of Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, European Union

Christmas Market Festspielhaus

 

 

Capital of Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main River.

 

It is an industrial center; its manufactures include machinery, textiles, chemicals, and pianos. Founded in the mid-12th cent., Bayreuth belonged to a branch of the Hohenzollern family from 1248 to 1791, when it was annexed by Prussia. It was taken by France in 1807 and passed to Bavaria in 1810.

 

old opera house

 

 

 

 

Richard Wagner lived in Bayreuth from 1872 to 1883, and the annual Bayreuth Festival is held in the Festspielhaus, an opera house designed by Wagner and built in 1872–76. Wagner and Franz Liszt are buried in Bayreuth.

 

Festspielhaus

More Photos of the Festspielhaus


Old Town

 

 

 

 

 

fish or a fish sandwich

 

 

 

even the dinosaur has a Christmas hat

Photos of the Bayreuth Christmas Market

 

delivering the chickens

 

 


Christmas Market Festspielhaus

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