Bayreuth Leipzig and Altenburg. In 1886, the composer Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth while visiting his daughter Cosima Liszt, Wagner's widow. Both Liszt and Wagner are buried in Bayreuth; however Wagner did not die there. Rather he died in Venice in 1883, but his family had his body brought to Bayreuth for burial. The new century also brought several innovations of modern technology: in 1892, the first electric street lights; in 1908 a municipal electricity station, and, in the same year, the first cinema. In 1914–15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after
Bayreuth Army, German Army ("Bundeswehr") and the German Border Police ("Bundesgrenzschutz"). In the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War the garrison tradition of the town came to an end when the "Bundeswehr's" Margrave Barracks ("Markgrafenkaserne") and the Röhrensee Barracks ("Röhrenseekaserne"), used by the US Army and the BGS ("Grenzschutzabteilung Süd 3"), were closed. Bayreuth Bayreuth (; ) (Bavarian: Bareid) is a medium-sized city in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the early 21st century, it is the