Nazi leaders often visited the Wagner festival and tried to turn Bayreuth into a Nazi model town. It was one of several places in which town planning was administered directly from Berlin, due to Hitler's special interest in the town and in the festival.

Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival. Hitler frequently attended Wagner performances in the Bayreuth Festival Hall.

Bayreuth was to have received a so-called Gauforum , a combined government building and marching square built to symbolise the centre of power in the town.

In the town was connected to the new Reichsautobahn. Under Nazi dictatorship the synagogue of the Jewish Community in Münzgasse was desecrated and looted on Kristallnacht but, due to its proximity to the Opera House it was not razed.

Inside the building, which is once again used by a Jewish community as a synagogue, a plaque next to the Torah Shrine recalls the persecution and murder of Jews in the Shoah , which took the lives of at least Jews in Bayreuth.

During the Second World War, a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was based in the town, [10] in which prisoners had to participate in physical experiments for the V Wieland Wagner , the grandson of the composer, Richard Wagner , was the deputy civilian director there in late and early April On 5, 8 and 11 April about one third of the town, including many public buildings and industrial installations were destroyed by heavy air strikes, along with 4, houses.

On 14 April, the U. Army occupied the town. After the war Bayreuth tried to part with its ill-fated past. It became part of the American Zone.

The housing situation was very difficult at first: there were about 53, inhabitants in the town, many more than before the war began.

This increase was primarily due to the high number of refugees and expellees. Even in more than 11, refugees were counted. In addition, because many homes had been destroyed due to the war, thousands of people were living in temporary shelters, even the festival restaurant next to the Festival Hall housed some people.

In , 1, men were conscripted by the town council for "essential work" clean-up work on damaged buildings and the clearing of roads.

A significant number of historic buildings were demolished post-war but cultural life was soon back on track: in Mozart festival weeks were held in the Opera House, from which the Franconian Festival Weeks developed.

In the Festival Hall was used for the first time again and there was a gala concert with the Vienna Philharmonic led by Hans Knappertsbusch.

Wieland Wagner's fresh and non-traditional stagings "restored credibility to a theater that had been totally ruined by Nazi ideology.

In , the Bavarian State Parliament decided to establish the University of Bayreuth and, on 3 November , it opened for lectures and research.

There are now about 10, students in the town. In May , a serious accident occurred at the folk festival in the town, when an overcrowded carriage derailed and several people were thrown out.

Four died and five were injured, some seriously. At that time, it was the worst disaster on a roller coaster since the Second World War.

In , Bayreuth chose its first CSU member and mayor, the lawyer, Michael Hohl, and, in , a Youth Parliament , consisting of 12 young people, aged 14—17 years, was elected for the first time.

The end of October saw the opening of the long-planned bus station and its associated office building on the newly created Hohenzollernplatz.

The town is best known for its association with the composer Richard Wagner , who lived in Bayreuth from until his death in In the northern part of Bayreuth is the Festival Hall , an opera house specially constructed for and exclusively devoted to the performance of Wagner's operas.

The premieres of the final two works of Wagner's Ring Cycle " Siegfried " and " Götterdämmerung " ; the cycle as a whole; and of Parsifal took place here.

Every summer, Wagner's operas are performed at the Festspielhaus during the month-long Richard Wagner Festival, commonly known as the Bayreuth Festival.

The Festival draws thousands each year and has persistently been sold out since its inauguration in Currently, waiting lists for tickets can stretch for 10 years or more.

Owing to Wagner's relationship with the then unknown philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , the first Bayreuth festival is cited as a key turning point in Nietzsche's philosophical development.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole — "Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

Bayreuth lies on the Red Main river, the southern of the two headstreams of the River Main , between the Fichtelgebirge Mountains and Franconian Switzerland.

The town is also part of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region. Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round.

The results of the local elections in Bavaria were as follows in brackets the change from the elections :.

Bayreuth is twinned with: [21]. Further twinnings with other European towns are planned. There is also a cultural partnership with the state of Burgenland , Austria , and a university partnership between the University of Bayreuth and the Washington and Lee University in Lexington , Virginia.

Margrave Albert Achilles, who was also Elector of Brandenburg , presented the town Bayreuth in December with the coat of arms that it still bears today.

Two fields show the black and white coat of arms of the Hohenzollerns. The black lion on gold with a red and white border was the municipal coat of arms of the burgraves of Nuremberg.

Along the two diagonals are two Reuten , small triangular shovels with a slightly bent shaft. They represent the ending -reuth in the town's name.

The Festival Hall dates to the 19th century and is now used solely for the Bayreuth Festival. Only works by Richard Wagner are put on.

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