Walpurgis Hall
The Walpurgis Hall (German: Walpurgishalle) is a hall on the Witches' Dance Floor near Thale in the Harz mountains, Germany, built in the Old Germanic style by Hermann Hendrich and Bernhard Sehring. The hall was opened in 1901 and is a museum today. Whilst Sehring designed the architecture of the building to Hendrich's guidelines, Hendrich himself was responsible for the five large paintings in the interior of the hall. These portray scenes of the Walpurgis Night from Goethe's Faust known as the: Will-o'-the-Wisp Dance, Mammon's Cave, Witches' Dance, Bride of the Wind und Gretchen's Appearance (Gretchen's Tragedy).
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Will-o'-the-Wisp Dance
Mammon's Cave
Witches' Dance
Bride of the Wind
Gretchen's Appearance
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Coordinates: 51°43′57.8″N 11°1′33.9″E / 51.732722°N 11.026083°E
- Buildings and structures in the Harz
- Museums in Saxony-Anhalt
- Cultural infrastructure completed in 1901
- Walpurgis Night
- Goethe's Faust
- German building and structure stubs