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Cheb is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 33,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře River.
The square Náměstí Krále Jiřího z Poděbrad
Wooden bridge over the Ohře River
Cheb Castle with the Black Tower
Killing of Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on the Catholic side as
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…Swedish invasion in the Thirty Years' War in 1631 and 1647, and in the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742. In 1634, during the Thirty Years' War, Albrecht von Wallenstein was killed here. In 1723, Cheb became a free royal town. The northern part of the old town was devastated by a large fire in 1809, and many middle-age…
Portrait by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, after a 1629 original by Anthony van Dyck
Countess Isabelle von Harrach, Wallenstein's second wife
Wallenstein depicted as Mars, the god of war, riding the sky in a chariot pulled by four horses. Ceiling decoration in the main hall of the Wallenstein Palace
The battle of Lützen was one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years' War, in which the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus was killed.