Caption:
Charlemagne, King of the Franks (768-814), Holy Roman emperor; 742 - 814. "Destruction of the Irminsul at Paderborn" (772). Woodcut, 1871, after fresco, 1848, by Alfred Rethel (1816-1859) in the Kaisersaal of the town hall in Paderborn. Berlin, Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte.