Wahnfried

Wahnfried is the Maison that the German type-setter Richard Wagner made build for him and his family of 1872 with 1874 with Bayreuth, near the Palais of the festivals which it had made build for the representation of his operas.

Wagner profited for construction from a subsidy from 25.000 Taler S from the king Louis II from Bavaria, his/her friend, guard and patron. It settles there with his wife Cosima and their children Daniela, Blandine, Isolde, Eva and Siegfried the April 28th 1874. Wahnfried means in German “Peace of the illusions”; this name comes from an inscription that Wagner made engrave on the frontage: ( Here, where my illusions found peace thus - Wahnfried - I name this house.

It is in Wahnfried that Wagner completes the Twilight of the gods the November 21st 1874 and Parsifal the January 13rd 1882. It is buried in 1883 in the garden, where his wife joined it only in 1930.

The widening of the family made necessary construction in 1896 of an extension, later called Siegfried-Wagner house. It became in the Années 1930 a residence for the guests of the family, and accommodated Arturo Toscanini, Richard Strauss and a close friend of Winifred Wagner, Adolf Hitler. Winifred will live there until its death in 1980.

The April 5th 1945, the building is mainly destroyed by a bomb flamer.

The Famille Wagner lives the villa until the death of Wieland 1966 and until in 1973 about it remains owner, date on which Wolfgang makes of it gift at the town of Bayreuth. After work of restoration, it reopens the July 24th 1976. It is since this date the seat of the public records and the research center of the Richard-Wagner-Siftung (Richard-Wagner Foundation) and shelters the Richard-Wagner-Museum (Richard-Wagner Museum).

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Richard-Wagner-Museum Bayreuth

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