Památník Zámeček, Memorial and national cultural monument in Pardubičky, Czech Republic

Památník Zámeček stands in Pardubičky on the grounds of a former military shooting range that the Schutzpolizei took over from the Larisch villa estate. The memorial combines a pietní místo with a monument at the three execution posts and a museum building whose exhibition covers the Nazi crimes in the Pardubice region.

During German occupation in 1942, this location served as an execution site after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. After the war, the site was transformed into a memorial to honor those killed there and remember that period.

The site was a training shooting range of the reserve police battalion Böhmen before becoming an execution ground of the Pardubice Gestapo. Executions took place at three posts over 19 days in June and July 1942, when 194 people from the Pardubice, Kolín and Hradec Králové regions were shot. The memorial organisation, founded by the city of Pardubice in 2021, keeps the memory of the victims of the second martial law and of the Czechoslovak resisters who worked with the Silver A parachute group.

The memorial stands in the Pardubičky district on the site of the former military shooting range behind the Larisch villa. The grounds combine an outdoor pietní místo with three execution posts and a museum building; the displays trace the 194 executions of June and July 1942. Allow time to read the names and the list of victims from Pardubice, Kolín and Hradec Králové.

The building combines concrete with steel, sheet metal, and wood in an architectural design that itself becomes part of telling the story. This construction style makes the exhibition visual, where the form and content work together to convey meaning.