On 30 June 2012, the UNESCO Committee added the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth to its World Heritage list, reports Welt Online. The opera house in Bayreuth, the city of Richard Wagner, thus becomes the 37th World Heritage site in Germany and the seventh in Bavaria. UNESCO has declared this fully intact masterpiece of baroque architecture, built between 1746 and 1750, to be "a unique monument of European baroque music festival culture". Margravine Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, who commissioned the opera house, is also famous for the Eremitage Palace and Gardens.