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Bayreuth

The festival city of Bayreuth in Upper is relatively quiet most of the year until the Richard Wagner Festival settles in for 30 days every summer.
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  • Type: Town with 72,300 residents
  • Description: medium-sized town in northern Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Baireuth”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Margravial Opera House and Bayreuth Festival Theatre.

Theater building
Photo: Chianti, FAL.
The is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, . Built between 1745 and 1750, it is one of Europe's few surviving theatres of the period and has been extensively restored.

Theater building
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or is an opera house north of Bayreuth, Germany, built by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner and dedicated solely to the performance of his stage works.

Museum
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The is a museum for modern art, opened in 1999 in Bayreuth, , Germany. The historic rooms of the baroque former town hall present exhibitions with contemporary art and classical modern art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heinersreuth and Bindlach.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 4 km northwest of Bayreuth.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in , . The town is adjacent immediately north of the town of Bayreuth. The population count of December 2006 was 7197 inhabitants. is situated 5 km northeast of Bayreuth.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of in in . is situated 6 km west of Bayreuth.

Bayreuth

Latitude
49.9446° or 49° 56′ 41″ north
Longitude
11.5744° or 11° 34′ 28″ east
Population
72,300
Elevation
338 metres (1,109 feet)
IATA airport code
BYU
United Nations Location Code
DE BYU
Open location code
8FXHWHVF+VP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21636385
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2951825
Wiki­data ID
Q3923
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bayreuth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bayreuth”
  • Arabic: “بايرويت”
  • Aragonese: “Bayreuth”
  • Armenian: “Բայրեյթ”
  • Armenian: “Բայրոյթ”
  • Arpitan: “Bayreuth”
  • Asturian: “Bayreuth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bayroyt”
  • Balinese: “Bayreuth”
  • Bashkir: “Байройт”
  • Basque: “Bayreuth”
  • Bavarian: “Bareid”
  • Bavarian: “Bayreith”
  • Belarusian: “Байрайт”
  • Belarusian: “Байройт”
  • Breton: “Bayreuth”
  • Bulgarian: “Байройт”
  • Catalan: “Bayreuth”
  • Cebuano: “Bayreuth”
  • Chinese: “拜律特”
  • Chinese: “拜罗伊特”
  • Chinese: “拜羅伊特”
  • Chinese: “拜雷乌特”
  • Chinese: “拜魯特”
  • Chuvash: “Байройт”
  • Corsican: “Bayreuth”
  • Croatian: “Bayreuth”
  • Czech: “Barout”
  • Czech: “Bayreuth”
  • Danish: “Bayreuth”
  • Dutch: “Bayreuth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بايرويت”
  • Esperanto: “Bayreuth”
  • Estonian: “Bayreuth”
  • Finnish: “Bayreuth”
  • French: “Bayreuth”
  • Friulian: “Bayreuth”
  • Galician: “Bayreuth”
  • Georgian: “ბაიროითი”
  • German: “Baireuth”
  • German: “Bayreuth”
  • Greek: “Μπαϊρόιτ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bayreuth”
  • Hebrew: “ביירוית”
  • Hungarian: “Bayreuth”
  • Icelandic: “Bayreuth”
  • Ido: “Bayreuth”
  • Indonesian: “Bayreuth”
  • Interlingua: “Bayreuth”
  • Interlingue: “Bayreuth”
  • Irish: “Bayreuth”
  • Italian: “Bayreuth”
  • Japanese: “バイロイト”
  • Kazakh: “Байройт”
  • Kirghiz: “Байройт”
  • Kongo: “Bayreuth”
  • Korean: “바이로이트”
  • Kurdish: “Bayreuth”
  • Ladin: “Bayreuth”
  • Latin: “Baruthum”
  • Latvian: “Baireita”
  • Ligurian: “Bayreuth”
  • Limburgan: “Bayreuth”
  • Lithuanian: “Bairoitas”
  • Lombard: “Bayreuth”
  • Low German: “Bayreuth”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bayreuth”
  • Macedonian: “Бајројт”
  • Malagasy: “Bayreuth”
  • Malay: “Bayreuth”
  • Marathi: “बेरुथ”
  • Minangkabau: “Bayreuth”
  • Narom: “Bayreuth”
  • Neapolitan: “Bayreuth”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bayreuth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayreuth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayreuth”
  • Norwegian: “Bayreuth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bayreuth”
  • Ossetian: “Байройт”
  • Persian: “بایرویت”
  • Picard: “Bayreuth”
  • Piemontese: “Bayreuth”
  • Polish: “Bayreuth”
  • Portuguese: “Bayreuth”
  • Romanian: “Bayreuth”
  • Romansh: “Bayreuth”
  • Russian: “Байрёйт”
  • Russian: “Байройт”
  • Sardinian: “Bayreuth”
  • Scots: “Bayreuth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bayreuth”
  • Serbian: “Bayreuth”
  • Serbian: “Бајројт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bayreuth”
  • Sicilian: “Bayreuth”
  • Slovak: “Bayreuth”
  • Slovenian: “Bayreuth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایرویت”
  • Spanish: “Bayreuth”
  • Swahili: “Bayreuth”
  • Swedish: “Bayreuth”
  • Swiss German: “Bayreuth”
  • Tatar: “Байройт”
  • Thai: “ไบร็อยท์”
  • Tumbuka: “Bayreuth”
  • Turkish: “Baireuth”
  • Turkish: “Bayreuth”
  • Ukrainian: “Байройт”
  • Uzbek: “Bayreuth”
  • Venetian: “Bayreuth”
  • Vietnamese: “Bayreuth”
  • Vlaams: “Bayreuth”
  • Volapük: “Bayreuth”
  • Walloon: “Bayreuth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bayreuth”
  • Welsh: “Bayreuth”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع بیرتھ”
  • Wolof: “Bayreuth”
  • Wu Chinese: “拜罗伊特”
  • Yue Chinese: “拜羅伊特”
  • Zulu: “Bayreuth”
  • “Bayreuth”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bayreuth”. Photo: Benreis, CC BY 3.0.