Walhalla102 photos

The memorial displays some 65 plaques and 130 busts of persons, covering 2,000 years of history - the earliest person honoured is Arminius, victor at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD). Whereas the Valhalla of Norse mythology was home to those gloriously slain in battle, Ludwig intended his Walhalla not only for warriors but also for scientists, writers, and clerics, and specifically included both men and women.

Busts

• Amalie Elisabeth: Countess of Hesse-Kassel during the Thirty Years’ War
• August II the Strong: Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
• Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly: Russian Field Marshal from Baltic German family of Scottish descent
• Ludwig van Beethoven: German composer from the classical period
• Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar: General in the Thirty Years’ War
• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher: Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
• Herman Boerhaave: Dutch humanist and physician
• Gottfried August Bürger: Poet
• Christoph, Duke of Württemberg: Duke of Württemberg
• Johann von Dalberg: Bishop of Worms
• Hans Karl von Diebitsch: Russian field marshal, born in Silesia
• Albrecht Dürer: Printmaker and painter
• Anthony van Dyck: Flemish painter and etcher
• Eberhard I of Württemberg: Duke of Württemberg
• Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn: Bishop of Würzburg
• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff: Poet
• Erasmus of Rotterdam: Dutch humanist
• Ernst I: Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg during the Thirty Years’ War
• Jan van Eyck: Flemish painter
• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg: Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
• Frederick I Elector Palatine: The Victorious, Elector of the Palatinate
• Frederick I Holy Roman Emperor: Barbarossa
• Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor: Stupor mundi
• Frederick II of Prussia: Frederick the Great
• Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg: The Great Elector
• Georg von Frundsberg: Knight and leader of Landsknechts
• Jakob Fugger: The Rich, merchant in Augsburg
• Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon: Austrian field marshal from Livonia
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: Composer
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poet and polymath
• Johann Joseph von Görres: Writer
• Hugo Grotius: Dutch jurist
• Otto von Guericke: German scientist and inventor
• Johannes Gutenberg: Inventor of movable type
• Albrecht von Haller: Swiss anatomist and physiologist
• Hans von Hallwyl: Swiss commander at the Battle of Morat
• Georg Friedrich Händel: German baroque composer
• Joseph Haydn: Austrian composer from the classical period
• Henry the Lion: Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
• Henry the Fowler: Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans
• Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse: German author
• Berthold von Henneberg: Elector and Archbishop of Mainz
• Johann Gottfried Herder: German poet, critic, and theologian
• Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel: German astronomer and composer
• Hans Holbein the Younger: German painter
• Ulrich von Hutten: German knight and Humanist
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: German patriot and father of gymnastics
• Immanuel Kant: German philosopher from the classical period
• Archduke Charles of Austria: Austrian military commander
• Charles V Holy Roman Emperor
• Charles V Duke of Lorraine
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden: King of Sweden
• Catherine II of Russia, Catherine the Great: Tsarina of Russia
• Johannes Kepler: German mathematician and astronomer
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: German poet
• Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor
• Nicolaus Copernicus: Astronomer, the first to thoroughly calculate a heliocentric model of the universe
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: German philosopher and mathematician
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: German poet from the age of enlightenment
• Justus von Liebig: German chemist
• Paris Graf von Lodron: Archbishop of Salzburg
• Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden: Türkenlouis, Imperial commander
• Ludwig I: King of Bavaria
• Maria Theresia: Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
• Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor
• Maximilian I: Prince-elector of Bavaria
• Hans Memling: Flemish painter
• Raphael Mengs: Bohemian painter
• Maurice of Orange: Dutch captain-general of the army of the Dutch Republic
• Maurice of Saxony: German commander and military strategist
• Justus Möser: German historian
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Austrian composer from the classical period
• Johannes Müller (Regiomontanus): German astronomer and mathematician
• Johannes von Müller: Swiss historian
• Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich: German field marshal in Russian service
• August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau: Prussian field marshal
• Nicholas of Flue: Swiss hermit, ascetic and mystic
• Otto I Holy Roman Emperor
• Theophrast von Hohenheim Paracelsus: 17th century Swiss physician and alchemist
• Jean Paul: German humorist
• Max von Pettenkofer: German chemist and hygienist
• Wolter von Plettenberg: German Master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
• Johannes von Reuchlin: German philosopher and humanist
• Peter Paul Rubens: Flemish painter
• Rudolf I of Habsburg: German king
• Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter: Dutch admiral
• Gerhard von Scharnhorst: Prussian general
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling: German philosopher
• Friedrich von Schiller: German poet and exponent of Sturm und Drang
• Johann Philipp von Schönborn: Archbishop and Prince-elector of Mainz
• Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg: Austrian field marshal
• Franz von Sickingen: Leader of the knighthood in Rhineland and Swabia
• Frans Snyders: Flemish painter
• Karl vom und zum Stein: Prussian politician
• Erwin von Steinbach: German architect of the Straßburger Münster
• Adalbert Stifter: Austrian author
• Johannes Aventinus (Johann Georg Turmair): Bavarian scholar and historian
• Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff: Austrian diplomat that negotiated the Peace of Westphalia
• Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp: Dutch admiral
• Aegidius Tschudi: Swiss composer
• Peter Vischer the elder: German Sculptor
• Albrecht von Wallenstein: Bohemian general in the Thirty Years’ War
• Christoph Martin Wieland: German Poet
• Wilhelm Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe: Commander of his army in the Seven Years’ War and for Portugal
• William I of Orange: Dutch leader of the Eighty Years’ War for the Dutch independence from Spain
• William III of Orange: Dutch Stadtholder and king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann: German archaeologist and art writer
• Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf: German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church
• Martin Luther: Leader of the Protestant Reformation, translator of the Bible into German
• Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz: Bohemian military leader
• Wilhelm I: German Emperor
• Otto von Bismarck: Chancellor of North German Confederation and then of the German Empire
• Helmuth Graf von Moltke: German Generalfeldmarschall
• Richard Wagner: German composer of operas
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Composer
• Franz Peter Schubert: Austrian Romantic composer
• Anton Bruckner: Austrian composer
• Max Reger: German composer and organist of the late romantic period
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: German physicist
• Richard Strauss: German composer
• Carl Maria von Weber: German composer
• Gregor Johann Mendel: Silesian Augustinian monk and naturalist
• Albert Einstein: Physicist
• Karolina Gerhardinger: Founder of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
• Konrad Adenauer: First Chancellor of West Germany
• Johannes Brahms: Composer
• Sophie Scholl: German passive resistance activist against the Nazi regime
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
• Edith Stein: Philosopher and saint
• Heinrich Heine: German Romantic poet