Villa Wahnfried was Richard Wagner's house. It is now a museum. The construction of Villa Wahnfried began in 1872 and was completed in 1874. Richard Wagner and his second wife Cosima are buried in the garden. Wagner and his family (Cosima, and the children Daniela, Blandine (from Cosima's previous marriage with Hans von Bülow), Isolde, Eva and Siegfried - moved in on 28 April 1874. Up until Wieland Wagner's death in 1966 Haus Wahnfried was used as a house for the Wagner family. With its Festivals and the Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth is regarded as the epicentre of the global interest in Wagner and his works. Like the Festival Hall, Wahnfried House, with its significant and eventful history, is an important German cultural centre, where not only may the aura of one of the greatest German artists be sensed in a special and authentic way, but which is also symbolic of the ambivalent and sensitive nature of German intellectual and cultural history spanning the last 150 years.
