On each of the short sides of the cenotaph there are four reliefs and on the long sides eight reliefs, which were all created by the artist Alexander Colin. The reliefs are works from the late Renaissance and are based on wooden carvings of the "Ehrenpforte" (the Gate of Honor) by Albrecht Dürer.

The sequence of the reliefs starts in the north and all the reliefs are numbered:

1 Maximilian's Wedding with Maria of Burgundy 1477
2 The First Battle of Guinegate 1478
3 The Recapture of Arras 1492
4 The Crowning of Maximilian as the Roman King in Aachen
5 Archduke Sigmund's Victory over the Venetians near Calliano 1487
6 The Liberation of Austria from Hungarian Rule 1490
7 The Capture of Stuhlweissenburg 1490
8 Maximilian's Daughter Margarethe is given back by the French King in 1493
9 The Fight Against the Turks in Croatia 1493
10 The Foundation of the Holy League against France in 1494
11 Maximilian's Wedding with Bianca Maria Sforza in 1494
12 Philip the Fair's Wedding with Juana of Spain in 1496
13 Maximilian's Triumph over the Bohemians near Regensburg in 1504
14 The Siege of Kufstein 1504
15 The Subjugation of the Duke of Geldern 1505
16 Alliance against Venice 1508
17 Victory over Venice in 1509
18 The Return of Duke Massimiliano Sforza to Milan in 1512
19 The Second Battle of Guinegate 1513
20 Maximilian and King Henry VIII of England meet in Therouanna in 1513
21 The Defeat of the Venetians near Vicenza in 1513
22 The Capture of the Venetian Fortress Marano
23 The Hungarian Double Wedding in Vienna in 1515
24 The Defense of Verona in 1516