Albrecht z Valdštejna

This memorial commemorates Albrecht von Wallenstein, the Bohemian military commander who rose to become the Habsburg emperor's supreme generalissimo during the Thirty Years' War, amassing vast territories and near-autonomous power across Central Europe. Wallenstein's trajectory was one of the most dramatic in 17th-century history: a minor nobleman who leveraged the chaos of war into near-sovereign authority before falling from imperial favor. In 1634 he was assassinated in Eger (Cheb) — on imperial orders or with imperial complicity, depending on which historian you ask — making his death one of the era's enduring unsolved questions. In Prague, the memorial sits close to the Wallenstein Palace in Malá Strana, the largest Baroque palace complex in the city, which he built during his lifetime as a deliberate architectural statement of power.