Bayreuth Festspielhaus Bayreuth Festspielhaus The Bayreuth Festspielhaus or Bayreuth Festival Theatre (, ) 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. It is the venue for the annual Bayreuth Festival, for which it was specifically conceived and built. Its official name is . Wagner adapted the design of the "Festspielhaus" from an unrealised project by Gottfried Semper for an opera house in Munich, without the architect's permission, and supervised its construction. Ludwig II of Bavaria provided the primary funding for the construction. The foundation
FSV Bayreuth FSV Bayreuth The FSV Bayreuth is a German association football club from the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria. The club was formed in a merger of the football departments of 1. FC Bayreuth and BSV 98 Bayreuth in May 2003. BSV was the product an earlier merger between VfB Bayreuth and TuSpo Bayreuth. The club was formed on 14 May 2003, when the football departments of 1. FC and BSV 98 Bayreuth merged. The two original clubs still exist and as non-football clubs. The new club started out in the tier-eight Kreisliga Bayreuth in 2003–04, where it finished in mid-table. In