Editing Bayreuth (section)

==== To the end of the Weimar Republic (1900–1933) ====
[[File:Notgeldbt1920.JPG|thumb|1920 [[emergency money]]: voucher for 25 pfennigs]]
[[File:Notgeldbayreuth.jpg|thumb|1923 emergency money: voucher for a million marks]]
The new century also brought several innovations of modern technology: in 1892, the first electric street lights; in 1908 a municipal electricity station, and, in the same year, the first cinema.

In 1914–15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after areas along the river had been flooded during a period of high water in 1909.

After the [[First World War]] had ended in 1918, the [[Workers' council|Workers' and Soldiers' Council]] took power briefly in Bayreuth. On 17 February 1919, there was a three-day coup, the so-called ''Speckputsch'', a brief interlude of excitement in the otherwise rather staid town.

In a series of ''[[Völkisch movement|völkisch]]'' and [[Nationalism|nationalist]] "Deutscher Tag" (German Days), the [[NSDAP]] organised the event in Bayreuth on 30 September 1923. More than 3,300 military and civilian people gathered (equivalent to 15% of the inhabitants), although [[Minister of Defence]] [[Otto Gessler]] had forbidden the participation of {{lang|de|[[Reichswehr]]}} units.<ref>Martin Schramm: "[http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_44699 Deutscher Tag, Bayreuth, 30. September 1923] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112105105/http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_44699 |date=12 January 2012 }}", in: ''Historisches Lexikon Bayerns''</ref> Among the guests were mayor Albert Preu as well as [[Siegfried Wagner|Siegfried]] and [[Winifred Wagner]], who invited keynote speaker [[Adolf Hitler]] to [[Wahnfried]] house. There he met writer [[Houston Stewart Chamberlain]], son-in-law of [[Richard Wagner]] and [[Antisemitism|anti-semitic]] [[Racism|race theorist]]. Also on that day, [[Hans Schemm]] met Hitler for the first time.

In 1932, the provinces of Upper and Middle Franconia were merged and [[Ansbach]] was chosen as the seat of government. As a small compensation, Bayreuth was given the merged state insurance agency for Upper and Middle Franconia. Unlike the provincial merger, the merger of those institutions was never reversed.