Walpurgis Hall

{{short description|Hall on the Witches' Dance Floor plateau in the Harz mountains, Germany}} [[File:Thale asv2018-10 img09 Witches Point.jpg|thumb|Walpurgis Hall (2018)]] [[File:Walpurgishalle Hexentanzplatz 2.jpg|thumb|Walpurgis Hall: Witches' Dance Floor (painting by Hermann Hendrich)]]

The '''Walpurgis Hall''' ({{langx|de|Walpurgishalle}}) is a hall on the [[Hexentanzplatz (Harz)|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 [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe's]] [[Faust I|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'').

== Paintings == <gallery> Walpurgishalle Irrlichtertanz.jpg|Will-o'-the-Wisp Dance Walpurgishalle Mammonshöhle.jpg|Mammon's Cave Walpurgishalle Hexentanz 2.jpg|Witches' Dance Walpurgishalle Windsbraut.jpg|Bride of the Wind Walpurgishalle Gretchenerscheinung.jpg|Gretchen's Appearance </gallery>

== External links == * [http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=2451 ''Walpurgishalle''. Painting by Hermann Hendrich] *[http://www.nibelungen-hort.de/abteilung1/508576963c0bcb601/index.html Page about the ''Walpurgishalle'' of the ''Nibelungen-Hortes'']

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[[Category:Buildings and structures in the Harz]] [[Category:Museums in Saxony-Anhalt]] [[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1901]] [[Category:Walpurgis Night]] [[Category:Goethe's Faust]]