Bayreuth
or BAIREUTH, a city city the Red Main, 40 miles N. N. E. of Nuremberg (Lat. Baruthum), celebrated for its associations with the unhappy Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth and sister of Frederick the Great, with Jean Paul Frederick Richter, and with Richard Wagner, who at length found here the opportunity to bring out his operas. and are held in the world-famous Wagner Wagner festivals are annual features theater. It contains many fine structures, and and some elegant residences near by.
Wahnfried, the former home of Wagner, has spacious grounds, which contain the composer's mausoleum. It has a good and varied manufacturing business. It was nearly destroyed in 1553 by Reuss and suffered greatly in the Thirty Years' War. Pop. about 35,000.