Wahnfried
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Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of (delusion, madness) and (peace, freedom).
Key facts
- Museum.name
- Wahnfried
- Museum.image
- Haus Wahnfried, Richard Wagner villa in Bayreuth. Germany.jpg
- Museum.mapframe zoom
- 14
- Museum.location
- Bayreuth, Germany
- Museum.founder
- Richard Wagner Foundation
- Museum.leader_type
- Secretary
- Museum.leader
- Doris Wiezorek
- Museum.director
- Dr Sven Friedrich
- Museum.curator
- Oliver Zeidler
- Museum.architect
- Carl Wölfel after Wilhelm Neumann
- Museum.owner
- City of Bayreuth
- Museum.publictransit
- Bus: Number 302 and 307, "Haus Wahnfried" bus stop
- Museum.car_park
- P6 (city hall Stadthalle/Am Geißmarkt) and P7 (multi-storey carpark in Badstrasse)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Named after
- Wanfried
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bayreuth
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Owned by
- Wagner family
- Location
- Bayreuth
- Image
- Wahnfried 1 db.jpg
- Significant event
- redevelopment
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- street address
- Richard-Wagner-Straße 48
- Commons category
- Haus Wahnfried
- inception
- 1976-01-01
- occupant
- Richard Wagner
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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- External links
Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of (delusion, madness) and (peace, freedom).
==History== Financed by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the house was constructed from 1872 to 1874 under Bayreuth Carl Wölfel's supervision after plans from Berlin architect Wilhelm Neumann, the plans being altered according to some ideas of Wagner. He and his family moved in on 28 April 1874, while the house was still under construction. Engraved across the portal is Wagner's motto: ("Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried"), which initially caused some amusement among local townsfolk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wahnfried” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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