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The Walhalla temple is located about 10 kilometers from Regensburg down the danube.

It was built under King Ludwig I. of Bavaria from 1816 until 1842 following the example

of the Parthenon in Athens (Greece).

The architect was Leo von Klenze.

Named after Walhall the home of gods in the germanic mythology, the temple commemorates

important figures of german history.

From 160 persons ( 96 busts and 64 plaques) at the date of its inauguration on 18 October 1842

the number expanded to 190 persons (127 busts and 64 plaques) until now.

For a long time only men were honored in the walhalla, but there now are also 12 women,

also the most recent bust (Sophie Scholl)

Since World War II the Walhalla is owned by the State of Bavaria.

busts in the walhalla

1. Konrad Adenauer – first Chancellor of West Germany
2. Amalie Elisabeth – Countess of Hesse-Kassel during the Thirty Years' War
3. August II the Strong – Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
4. Johann Sebastian Bach – composer
5. Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly – Russian Field Marshal
6. Ludwig van Beethoven – composer
7. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar – general in the Thirty Years' War
8. Otto von Bismarck – Chancellor of North German Confederation and then of the German Empire
9. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher – Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
10. Herman Boerhaave – Dutch humanist and physician
11. Johannes Brahms - Composer
12. Anton Bruckner – Austrian composer
13. Gottfried August Bürger – poet
14. Christoph of Württemberg – Duke of Württemberg
15. Johann von Dalberg – Bishop of Worms
16. Hans Karl von Diebitsch – Russian field marshal, born in Silesia
17. Albrecht Dürer – painter, wood carver and engraver
18. Anthony van Dyck – Flemish painter and etcher
19. Eberhard I. of Württemberg – Duke of Württemberg
20. Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn – Bishop of Würzburg
21. Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff – poet
22. Albert Einstein – physicist
23. Erasmus of Rotterdam – humanist
24. Ernst I – Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg during the Thirty Years' War
25. Jan van Eyck – Flemish painter
26. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg – Prussian Generalfeldmarschall
27. Frederick I, Palatinate – the Victorious, Elector of Palatinate
28. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor - Barbarossa
29. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor – Stupor mundi
30. Frederick II of Prussia – Frederick the Great
31. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg – the Great Elector
32. Georg von Frundsberg – Knight and leader of Landsknechts
33. Jakob Fugger – the Rich, merchant in Augsburg
34. Johannes Gutenberg – inventor of printing
35. Karolina Gerhardinger – founder of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
36. Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon – Austrian field marshal from Livonia
37. Christoph Willibald Gluck – composer
38. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – poet and polymath
39. Johann Joseph von Görres – writer
40. Hugo Grotius – Dutch jurist
41. Otto von Guericke – German scientist and inventor
42. Albrecht von Haller – Swiss anatomist and physiologist
43. Hans von Hallwyl – Swiss commander at the Battle of Morat
44. Georg Friedrich Händel – German baroque composer
45. Joseph Haydn – Austrian composer from the classical period
46. Henry the Lion – Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
47. Henry the Fowler – Duke of Saxony and King of the Germans
48. Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse - German author
49. Berthold von Henneberg – Elector and Archbishop of Mainz
50. Johann Gottfried Herder – German poet, critic, and theologian
51. Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel – German astronomer and composer
52. Hans Holbein the Younger – German painter
53. Ulrich von Hutten – German knight and Humanist
54. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn – German patriot and father of gymnastics
55. Immanuel Kant – German philosopher
56. Archduke Charles of Austria – Austrian military commander
57. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
58. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
59. Charles X Gustav of Sweden – King of Sweden
60. Catherine II of Russia, Catherine the Great – Tsarina of Russia
61. Johannes Kepler – German mathematician and astronomer
62. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock – German poet
63. Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
64. Nicolaus Copernicus – European astronomer
65. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – German philosopher
66. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – German poet from the age of enlightenment
67. Justus Freiherr von Liebig – German chemist
68. Paris Graf von Lodron – Archbishop of Salzburg
69. Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden - Türkenlouis, Imperial commander
70. Ludwig I – King of Bavaria
71. Martin Luther – Leader of the protestant reformation, translator of the bible into German
72. Maria Theresia – Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
73. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
74. Maximilian I. – Prince-elector of Bavaria
75. Hans Memling – Dutch painter
76. Gregor Joh. Mendel – Austrian Augustinian monk and naturalist
77. Raphael Mengs – Painter
78. Graf Helmuth von Moltke – German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazis
79. Maurice of Orange – captain-general of the army of the Dutch Republic
80. Maurice of Saxony – German commander and military strategist
81. Justus Möser – German historian
82. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Austrian composer
83. Johannes Müller (Regiomontanus) – German astronomer and mathematician
84. Johannes von Müller – Swiss historian
85. Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich – German field marshall in Russian service
86. August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau – Prussian field marshall
87. Nicholas of Flue – Swiss hermit, ascetic and mystic
88. Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
89. Theophrast von Hohenheim Paracelsus – 17th century Swiss physician and alchemist
90. Jean Paul – German humorist
91. Max von Pettenkofer – German chemist and hygienist
92. Wolter von Plettenberg – German Master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
93. Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz – Austrian military leader
94. Max Reger – German composer and organist of the late romantic period
95. Johannes von Reuchlin – German philosopher and humanist
96. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – German physicist
97. Peter Paul Rubens – Flemish painter
98. Rudolf I of Habsburg – German king
99. Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter – Dutch admiral
100. Gerhard von Scharnhorst – Prussian general
101. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling – German philosopher
102. Friedrich von Schiller - German poet and exponent of Sturm und Drang
103. Sophie Scholl - German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
104. Johann Philipp von Schönborn – Archbishop and Prince-elector of Mainz
105. Franz Peter Schubert – Austrian Romantic composer
106. Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg – Austrian field marshall
107. Franz von Sickingen – leader of the knighthood in Rhineland and Swabia
108. Frans Snyders - Flemish painter
109. Karl vom und zum Stein – Prussian politician
110. Erwin von Steinbach – German architect of the Straßburger Münster
111. Adalbert Stifter – Austrian author
112. Richard Strauss – German composer
113. Johannes Aventinus (Johann Georg Turmair) – Bavarian scholar and historian
114. Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff – Austrian diplomat that negotiated the Peace of Westphalia
115. Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp – Admiral in the Dutch navy.
116. Aegidius Tschudi – Swiss Historian
117. Peter Vischer the elder – German Sculptor
118. Richard Wagner – German composer of operas
119. Albrecht von Wallenstein – Duke and General in the Thirty Years' War
120. Carl Maria von Weber – German composer
121. Christoph Martin Wieland – German Poet
122. Wilhelm Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe – Commander of his army in the Seven Years' War and for Portugal
123. Wilhelm I. – German Emperor
124. William I of Orange – Dutch leader of the Eighty Years' War for independence from Spain.
125. Wilhelm III. of Orange – King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
126. Johann Joachim Winckelmann – German archeologist and art writer
127. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf – German religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church

Commemorative plaques

1. Alaric I - king of the Visigoths
2. Albertus Magnus - philosopher and theologian
3. Alboin - king of the Lombards
4. Alfred the Great - first King of England
5. Alcuin - first bishop of Utrecht
6. Arnulf of Carinthia - Holy Roman Emperor
7. Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria - Arnulf the Bad, confiscated church property for defense
8. Athaulf - king of the Visigoths
9. Beda Venerabilis - monk and scholar
10. Bernward of Hildesheim - Bishop of Hildesheim
11. Saint Boniface
12. Adrian von Bubenberg - Swiss knight and general
13. Clovis I - King of the Franks
14. Julius Civilis (25- ), leader of Germanic rebellion against Rome in 69
15. Egbert of Wessex (-839), considered the first de facto King of England, grandfather of Alfred the Great
16. Eginhard - historian
17. Elisabeth of Hungary - Saint and princess
18. Emmeram of Regensburg - Saint
19. Engelbert II of Berg - Saint
20. Friediger
21. Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg) Duke of Austria and King of the Romans
22. Geiseric - King of the Vandals and Alans
23. Gerhard von Rile - architect of the Cologne Cathedral
24. Peter Henlein - inventor of the watch
25. Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
26. Hengest - king
27. Heribert of Cologne - Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III.
28. Ermanaric - King of the Ostrogoths
29. Hermann der Cherusker - defeated a Roman army in the Battle of Teutoburg
30. Hermann von Salza - fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
31. Hildegard von Bingen a German magistra1, monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music.
32. Horsa - fifth century warrior, brother of Hengest
33. Charles Martel - the Hammer, defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Tours
34. Charlemagne - founder of the Holy Roman Empire
35. Lambrecht von Aschaffenburg
36. Leopold VI, Duke of Austria
37. Marbod - king of the Marcomanni
38. Mechthilde - Saint
39. The writer of the Nibelungenlied
40. Odoacer - chieftain of the Germanic, deposed the last Western Roman Emperor
41. Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
42. Otto of Bamberg - canonized medieval German bishop who as papal legate converted much of Pomerania to Christianity.
43. Otto of Freising - Bishop of Freising
44. Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
45. Pippin of Herstal, Mayor of the Palace
46. Pippin the Younger, Mayor of the Palace
47. Rabanus Maurus, Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz
48. Hrosvit - a Monastic Christian poet from Saxony.
49. The three men of the Rütli-Schwur - Swiss confederation
50. Theudelinde
51. Theodoric I - King of the Visigoths
52. Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and of the Visigoths
53. Arnold von Thurn
54. Totila, king of the Ostrogoths
55. Ulfilas, Gothic bishop, missionary, and translator.
56. Velleda
57. Walther von der Vogelweide, celebrated poet of Middle High German lyric
58. Bruno von Warendorp - mayor of Lübeck
59. Paul Warnefried - Paul the Deacon
60. Meister Wilhelm von Köln
61. Saint Willibrord, Northumbrian missionary, known as the Apostle to the Frisians
62. Arnold von Winkelried, hero of the Swiss
63. Widukind - duke of Saxony and antagonist of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars
64. Wolfram von Eschenbach, a German knight, Minnesinger and epic poet
65. Widerstand - German Resistance fighters against Nazi Germany