With roots going back to 1194, it came to full flower in the 18th century, spawning its own 'Bayreuth Rococo' style of architecture which reached an apogee in the highly ornate
Margravial Opera House (think the optimal setting for any baroque-inspired production you might have seen by Toronto's Opera Atelier).
Property planning for buildings after the performance image HOAI 2013 for the conversion of Redoute house on
Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth to Opera Museum of World Heritage Site.
In all, there are over 3000 compositions dating from as early as the sixteenth century up through the twentieth, but the core of the collection stems from the repertoire amassed at the
margravial court in Karlsruhe during the reigns of Karl Wilhelm (1679-1738) and Karl Friedrich (1728-1811).
But a comprehensive organization of the territorial church was only accomplished in 1556, an organization that firmly subjected the rural clergy to regional superintendents and a principality-wide consistory of
margravial officials and theologians.