Editing Bayreuth (section)

==Culture and places of interest==

===Theatre===
[[File:Bayreuth Markgräfliches Opernhaus 2019-07-20.jpg|thumb|The [[Margravial Opera House]]]]
[[File:Festspielhaus Bayreuth 2016.jpg|thumb|The Richard Wagner Festival Hall on the Green Hill in Bayreuth]]
The [[Margravial Opera House]] was opened in 1748 and is one of the finest Baroque theatres in Europe. The [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]] is both a museum and the oldest working ''tableau'' in Bayreuth.

The [[Bayreuth Festspielhaus|Festival Hall]] dates to the 19th century and is now used solely for the [[Bayreuth Festival]]. Only works by [[Richard Wagner]] are performed.

The former ''Stadthalle'' (lit.: city [[hall]]) did not have its own ensemble but was regularly used by the ''[[Theater Hof]]'' as well as various travelling theatres. It has been under reconstruction since 2017 and is supposed to be re-opened under the new name ''Friedrichsforum'' in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-04|title=Friedrichsforum: Bayreuths Großbaustelle feiert Richtfest|url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/bayreuth-grossbaustelle-friedrichsforum-feiert-richtfest,S9WTMgm|access-date=2020-11-09|website=BR24|language=de|archive-date=10 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110034454/https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/bayreuth-grossbaustelle-friedrichsforum-feiert-richtfest,S9WTMgm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The only two theatres with their own ensemble are the ''Studiobühne Bayreuth'' and amateur dramatic society, ''Brandenburg Kulturstadt''. The venues of the ''Studiobühne'' are the domicile of the theatre in the ''Röntgenstraße'', the artificial ruins of the [[Hermitage Museum (Bayreuth)|Hermitage]] and the courtyard of piano manufacturer [[Steingraeber & Söhne]].

===Museums===
* The Richard Wagner Museum at [[Wahnfried]] House was the residence of Richard Wagner and his family's home until 1966. Since 1976 it has been a museum with attached national archives and a research centre for the Richard Wagner Foundation in Bayreuth.
* The Jean Paul Museum in the former residence of Richard Wagner's daughter, Eva Chamberlain, with [[autograph]]s, first editions of works, portraits and other pictorial material.
* The Franz Liszt Museum in the house where [[Franz Liszt]] died, with about 300 photographs, scripts and printed papers from the collection of the Munich pianist, Ernst Burger, which were bought by the town of Bayreuth. In addition there is a ''Stummklavier'', made by the [[Rud. Ibach Sohn|Ibach company]] of Haus Wahnfried, letters and first editions of Franz Liszt. Biographic information boards, a mould of the font from Liszt's birthplace [[Raiding, Austria]] and Liszt busts by Antonio Galli enhance the collection. Visits are accompanied by the music of Franz Liszt.
* The Historical Museum in the Old Latin School on ''Kirchplatz''. On the ground floor it portrays the history and development of Bayreuth from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century with a model of the town in the year 1763. On the first floor are divisions covering the art and cultural history of Bayreuth's margravial period (17th and 18th centuries). Another division portrays arts and crafts in Bayreuth and the surrounding area with examples of faience pottery, glass products from the Fichtelgebirge and stone pottery from [[Creußen]]. Painting, crafts, and early industrial artefacts from the Biedermeier period and the late 19th century round off a visit to the museum.
* The [[Kunstmuseum Bayreuth|Museum of Art]] in the Old Town Hall which contains the Helmut and Constanze Meyer Art Foundation, the Georg Tappert collection and the archives and collection of Caspar Walter Rauh. The collections contain key works from the 20th century. They also include the Little Poster Museum (formerly a museum on its own, the collection was integrated into the Museum of Art in 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kunstmuseum Bayreuth: 2012 – Plakatmuseum im Kunstmuseum Bayreuth|url=https://www.kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de/sammlungen/2012-plakatmuseum-im-kunstmuseum-bayreuth/|access-date=2020-11-09|website=www.kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de}}</ref>) and the British American Tobacco's Historical Collection.
* The German Typewriter Museum with a collection of over 400 historic typewriters from the Research and Training Centre for Shorthand and Word Processing in Bayreuth.
* A branch of the Bavarian State Painting Collection was opened in the New Palace in August 2007. 80 works from Dutch and German painters of the late 17th century and 18th century are displayed.
* The Archaeological Museum in the Italian Building of the New Palace was founded in 1827 by the Historic Society. Its eight exhibition rooms include artefacts such as [[New Stone Age]] stone axes, 80 pottery jars from the [[Hallstatt era]] and [[Celts|Celtic]] bronze jewellery. The discoveries on display, which all come from eastern Upper Franconia, especially [[Franconian Switzerland]] and the region around Bayreuth, date from the [[Old Stone Age]] to the [[Middle Ages]]. In the experimental field there is a reconstructed loom, a rock drill and an original ''Schiebemühle''.
* [[Brauerei Gebr. Maisel|Maisel's Brewery]] and Cooper's Museum teaches everything about the production of [[Weizen beer]] on a {{convert|2400|m2|0|abbr=on}} layout, making it the largest brewery in the world,<ref>1988 Guinness Book of Records</ref><ref>[http://www.bayreuth.de/tourism/tourist_information/museums_365.html ''Museums in Bayreuth''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923014845/http://www.bayreuth.de/tourism/tourist_information/museums_365.html |date=23 September 2010 }} at www.bayreuth.de. Accessed on 18 September 2010.</ref> not least due to its collection of over 5,500 beer glasses and mugs.
* The Upper Franconia Prehistory Museum portrays the history of life in Upper Franconia since the beginning of the world. Exhibitions are constantly changing; currently the life-size dinosaurs attract especial interest.
* Bayreuth Football Museum (''Altstadt-Kult-Museum'' of [[SpVgg Bayreuth]])
* The Bayreuth of Wilhelmina Museum in the New Castle
* Fire Brigade Museum
* [[Iwalewahaus|Iwalewa House]], the Africa Centre of the University of Bayreuth
* Johann Baptist Graser School Museum
* Catacombs of the Bayreuth Aktien Brewery
* Margravial state rooms and collection of Bayreuth faiences in the New Castle
* Museum of Agricultural Tools and Equipment
* Lindenhof Natural History Museum
* Richard Wagner Gymnasium School Museum
* Wilhelm Leuschner Memorial
* Wo Sarazen Art

===Buildings===
[[File:Spitalkirche Bayreuth.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|The Spitalkirche]]
* The Hermitage (''Eremitage'')
* Thiergarten Hunting Lodge (''Jagdschloss Thiergarten'')
* New Palace (''Neues Schloss'') and court garden, seat of the margraves from 1753
* St. Georgen Castle (''Ordensschloss St. Georgen'')
* [[Ordenskirche St. Georgen|St. Georgen Church]] (''Ordenskirche St. Georgen'')
* St. John's Parish Church (''St. Johannis'')
* Colmdorf Castle
* ''Rollwenzelei'' with Jean Paul's study (''Dichterstube'')
* Old Palace and castle chapel of Our Dear Lady (''Altes Schloss'')
* Victory Tower (''Siegesturm'')
* Spital Church (''Spitalkirche'')
* Church of the Holy Trinity (''Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit'')
* Stift church (''Stiftskirche'')
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* Birken Castle
* The ''Goldener Anker'' hotel
* Baroque parks:
** Hermitage Park, former seat of the margraves, outside the inner town
** Castle and park of ''Fantaisie'', in [[Eckersdorf]] (vicinity of Bayreuth. {{convert|7|km|0|abbr=on}} west)
** ''[[Sanspareil]]'' Park, about {{convert|30|km|0|abbr=off}} west of Bayreuth
* University Botanical Gardens
* Old building of the ''[[Bayreuth Medical Center|Klinikum Bayreuth]]'', now used as the "load-balancing" branch of the [[German Federal Archives|Bundesarchiv]] („Lastenausgleichsarchiv Bayreuth“) mainly dealing with post-World War II ''[[Lastenausgleich]]'' compensation records

===Public parks and cemeteries===
[[File:Neues Schloss in der Eremitage. Bayreuth. IMG 2276.JPG|thumb|The [[Hermitage Museum (Bayreuth)|Eremitage]] with its sun temple]]
In the town centre is the Court Garden ({{lang|de|Hofgarten}}) of the New Palace. Near the Festival Hall is the Festival Park. On the southern edge of the town lie the [[Ecological-Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth]]. On the {{lang|de|Königsallee}}, east of the town centre, is the relatively small Miedel Garden.

The best known park in Bayreuth is that of the [[Hermitage Museum (Bayreuth)|Eremitage]] (Hermitage) in the district of [[St. Johannis (Bayreuth)|St. Johannis]]. With a total area of almost 50 hectares, it is the largest park in Bayreuth.

Bayreuth has been chosen to host the Bavarian Country Garden Show in 2016.<ref>[[Bayerischer Rundfunk]]: [http://www.br-online.de/studio-franken/aktuelles-aus-franken/landesgartenschau-2016-wuerzburg-bayreuth-2009-kw14-ID1237907268517.xml Bayreuth bekommt die Landesgartenschau 2016]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bayreuth.de/rathaus-buergerservice/planen-bauen/entwicklung-konzepte/landesgartenschau/ |title=Landesgartenschau |work=Bayreuth.de |access-date=2018-05-21 |language=de-DE |archive-date=1 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101194438/https://www.bayreuth.de/rathaus-buergerservice/planen-bauen/entwicklung-konzepte/landesgartenschau/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> For this reason another park called {{lang|de|Wilhelminenaue}} was built on the Main water meadows between the Volksfestplatz and the A9 motorway.<ref>Bayreuth Stadtnachrichten – Amtsblatt der Stadt Bayreuth, Nr. 2, 30. Januar 2009.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bayreuth.de/rathaus-buergerservice/planen-bauen/wilhelminenaue/ |title=Wilhelminenaue |work=Bayreuth.de |access-date=2018-05-21 |language=de-DE}}</ref>

The oldest surviving cemetery is the Town Cemetery ({{lang|de|Stadtfriedhof}}) with a large number of gravestones of famous people. On the southern edge of the town is the Southern Cemetery ({{lang|de|Südfriedhof}}) and crematorium. The districts of St. Johannis and St. Georgen have their own cemeteries. On {{lang|de|Nürnberger Straße}}, in the east of the town, is a Jewish cemetery.

===Sport===
Over 60 clubs offer just under one hundred sports. The most successful club in the town presently is the Bayreuth Air Sports Community with its gliding team: in 2002 and 2015 the pilots won the Federal Gliding League, and they also won the IGC-World League in 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/league.html?r=total&c=C0&sc=&rt=olc&ltp=first&st=olc-league&sp=2015| title = Final result IGC-World League 2015}}</ref> The street hockey team of the Hurricans Bayreuth have been German runners-up three times (1998/2004/2006) and champions five times (1996/1997/2001/2005/2007). The basketball team of [[Medi Bayreuth]] plays in the [[Basketball Bundesliga]] (division 1), the HaSpo Bayreuth handball team, the footballers of [[SpVgg Bayreuth]] and the volleyball players of [[BSV Bayreuth]] each play in their respective Bavarian League. The ice hockey team, [[EHC Bayreuth]], plays in the [[DEL2]], the second highest ice hockey league in Germany.

Bayreuth had its sporting heyday in the late 1980s and early 90s. The basketball team, [[Steiner Bayreuth]], were twice German Cup winners (1987/1988 and 1988/1989) and in the 1988/1989 season they also won the German championship. The hockey team of Bayreuth's swimming club (SCC) was twice champions of Second Division South and also played for a year in the Hockey League. At the time that the [[table tennis]] team of Steiner Bayreuth was also first class<ref>founded in 1970 by Horst Steiner (*1949) Zeitschrift [[Deutscher Tischtennis Sport|DTS]], 1989/6 dts regional/Süd p.5</ref> (since 1983 2nd Division, in 1984/85, 1986/87 and 1987/88 1st Division,<ref>Zeitschrift [[Deutscher Tischtennis Sport|DTS]], 1984/6 p.32</ref> 1988 relegated<ref>Zeitschrift DTS, 1988/5 p.12</ref> and the team has played for many years in the 2nd Football Division. The table tennis players of the [[1. Bayreuth FC]] played in the 1st Division from 1994 to 1997.

In 1999 the World [[Glider (sailplane)|Glider]] Championships took place in Bayreuth.

===Regular events===
* In January, May, June, July, November and December: Young master pianists (concert series for young pianists from various music academies in the rooms of piano makers, Steingraeber & Söhne)
* April: Bayreuth Easter Festival (charity concerts for children with cancer)
* May: Musica Bayreuth
* June: Uniopenair
* June: Time for New Music
* June: Bayreuth Folk Festival
* July: Bayreuth Town Festival (on the first weekend in July)
* July: Bayreuth Piano Festival
* July–August: [[Bayreuth Festival]], Midsummer Night Festival
* September: Rock in Bayreuth
* September: Bayreuth Baroque (opera performances in the [[Margravial Opera House]])
* October: Bayreuth ''Kneipen'' Festival
* October: Bayreuth Museum Night (the day before the clocks go back)
* October: Since 2008 the town had awarded annually the Margravine Wilhelmina Prize of the Town of Bayreuth as part of the Bayreuth Future Forum symposium of the University of Bayreuth