# Walpurgis Hall

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Hall on the Witches' Dance Floor plateau in the Harz mountains, Germany

Walpurgis Hall (2018)

Walpurgis Hall: Witches' Dance Floor (painting by Hermann Hendrich)

The **Walpurgis Hall** ([German](/source/German_language): *Walpurgishalle*) is a hall on the [Witches' Dance Floor](/source/Hexentanzplatz_(Harz)) near [Thale](/source/Thale) in the [Harz mountains](/source/Harz_mountains), Germany, built in the [Old Germanic](/source/Old_Germanic) style by [Hermann Hendrich](/source/Hermann_Hendrich) and [Bernhard Sehring](/source/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](/source/Walpurgis_Night) from [Goethe's](/source/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe) [Faust](/source/Faust_I) 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

		- Will-o'-the-Wisp Dance

		- Mammon's Cave

		- Witches' Dance

		- Bride of the Wind

		- Gretchen's Appearance

## External links

- [*Walpurgishalle*. Painting by Hermann Hendrich](http://www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=2451)

- [Page about the *Walpurgishalle* of the *Nibelungen-Hortes*](http://www.nibelungen-hort.de/abteilung1/508576963c0bcb601/index.html)

[51°43′57.8″N 11°1′33.9″E / 51.732722°N 11.026083°E / 51.732722; 11.026083](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Walpurgis_Hall&params=51_43_57.8_N_11_1_33.9_E_type:landmark_region:DE-ST)

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