21 Facts About Bayreuth

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Bayreuth is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains.

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One can therefore assume that Bayreuth was awarded its town charter between 1200 and 1230.

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3.

In 1398 Bayreuth was partitioned from Nuremberg, becoming the Principality of Bayreuth .

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4.

The town of Bayreuth developed slowly and was affected time and again by disasters.

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5.

Bayreuth was an educated and well-travelled man, whose tutor had been the statesman Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal.

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6.

Bayreuth experienced its Golden Age during the reign of Margrave Frederick and Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, the favourite sister of Frederick the Great.

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7.

Bayreuth lacked the means due to the elaborate lifestyle of his predecessor, because the buildings and the salaries of the mainly foreign artists had swallowed up a lot of money.

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8.

Rule of the Hohenzollerns over the Principality of Kulmbach-Bayreuth ended in 1806 after the defeat of Prussia by Napoleonic France.

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9.

Bayreuth became the capital of the Bavarian district of Mainkreis, which later transferred into Obermainkreis and was finally renamed as the province of Upper Franconia.

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10.

Bayreuth was first given a railway connexion in 1853, when the Bayreuth–Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway was built at the town's expense.

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11.

In 1886, the composer Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth while visiting his daughter Cosima Liszt, Wagner's widow.

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12.

In 1949, Bayreuth became the seat of the government of Upper Franconia again.

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13.

Current Member of the German Bundestag for Bayreuth is Silke Launert from the Christian Social Union in Bavaria.

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14.

In 1955 Bayreuth took on sponsorship for displaced Sudeten Germans from the town of Franzensbad in Okres Cheb.

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15.

Best known park in Bayreuth is that of the "Eremitage" in the district of St Johannis.

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16.

Bayreuth has been chosen to host the Bavarian Country Garden Show in 2016.

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17.

The street hockey team of the Hurricans Bayreuth have been German runners-up three times and champions five times .

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18.

The ice hockey team, EHC Bayreuth, plays in the DEL2, the second highest ice hockey league in Germany.

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19.

Bayreuth had its sporting heyday in the late 1980s and early 90s.

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20.

From 1 January 2010 public transport from the town and district of Bayreuth was integrated into the Nuremberg Regional Transport Network .

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21.

Centuries Bayreuth was a garrison town for the Prussian Army, Royal Bavarian Army, Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, US Army, German Army and the German Border Police .

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