Germanic cultural space

**Creoda** · 11-18-2018, 07:15 AM

The Walhalla Memorial in Bavaria, dedicated to great Germanic figures throughout history, opened in 1842

Commermorative Plaques

Alaric I – king of the Visigoths
Albertus Magnus – philosopher and theologian
Alboin – king of the Lombards
Alfred the Great – King of Wessex
Alcuin – Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational affairs
Arnulf of Carinthia – Holy Roman Emperor
Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria – Arnulf the Bad, confiscated church property for defense
Athaulf – king of the Visigoths
Bede – English monk and scholar
Bernward of Hildesheim – Bishop of Hildesheim
Saint Boniface – Patron saint of Germany
Adrian von Bubenberg – Swiss knight and general
Clovis I – King of the Franks
Julius Civilis (* 25), leader of Germanic rebellion against Rome in 69
Egbert of Wessex (770–839), considered the first de facto King of England, grandfather of Alfred the Great
Eginhard – historian
Elisabeth of Hungary – Saint and Hungarian princess
Emmeram of Regensburg – Saint
Engelbert II of Berg – Saint
Friediger
Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) Duke of Austria and King of the Romans
Geiseric – King of the Vandals and Alans
Gerhard von Rile – architect of the Cologne Cathedral
Peter Henlein – inventor of the watch
Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Hengest – leader of the Germanic invasion of Britain in the 5th century
Heribert of Cologne – Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
Ermanaric – King of the Ostrogoths
Hermann der Cherusker – victor in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Hermann von Salza – fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
Hildegard von Bingen a German magistra,[1] monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music.
Horsa – warrior, and brother of Hengest
Hrosvit – a twelfth century canoness, Latin language poet, and pioneer dramatist of Gandersheim Abbey, Lower Saxony
Charles Martel – the Hammer, defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Tours
Charlemagne – founder of the Holy Roman Empire
Lambrecht von Aschaffenburg
Leopold VI, Duke of Austria
Marbod – king of the Marcomanni
Mechtilde – Saint
The writer of the Nibelungenlied
Odoacer – chieftain of the Germanic, deposed the last Western Roman Emperor
Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Otto of Bamberg – canonized medieval German bishop who as papal legate converted much of Pomerania to Christianity.
Otto of Freising – Bishop of Freising
Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace
Pippin the Younger, Mayor of the Palace
Rabanus Maurus, Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz
The three of the Rütli-Schwur (Swiss confederation)
Theudelinde
Theodoric I – King of the Visigoths
Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and of the Visigoths
Arnold zum Turm
Totila, king of the Ostrogoths
Ulfilas, Gothic bishop, missionary, and translator.
Veleda, prophetess of the Bructeri during the Batavian rebellion
Walther von der Vogelweide, celebrated poet of Middle High German lyric
Bruno von Warendorp – mayor of Lübeck
Paul Warnefried – Paul the Deacon
Meister Wilhelm von Köln
Saint Willibrord, Northumbrian missionary, known as the Apostle to the Frisians
Arnold von Winkelried, hero of the Swiss
Widukind – duke of Saxony and antagonist of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars
Wolfram von Eschenbach, a German knight, Minnesinger and epic poet
Widerstand – German Resistance fighters against Nazi Germany. Added in 2003 *spit*

Original 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 Renaissance 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 (Marie Antoinette's mother)
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 historian
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 archeologist and art writer
Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf – German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church
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William III of England (Haller, 1816)
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (Widnmann, 1842)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Schadow, 1808)
Herman Boerhaave (Leeb, 1823)
Maurice de Saxe – German officer and Marshal General of France (Tieck, 1813)
Georg Friedrich Händel (R. Schadow, 1815)
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Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (Tieck, 1818)
Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (Lossow, 1841)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (R. Schadow, 1814)
William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (Schadow, 1809)
Albrecht von Haller (Schadow, 1809)
Anton Raphael Mengs (Rauch, 1808)
Maria Theresia