The Habsburg Mausoleum in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, designed and constructed in the second half of the sixteenth century by Alexander Colin from Mecheln in the Low Countries, is often noted in modern scholarship as an early manifestation of the influence in Bohemia of the Habsburg dynasty, which had ascended the Bohemian throne in 1527 and ruled without interruption until 1918. Bridging both art historical and social cultural scholarship, this article explores the location and spatial features of the mausoleum, as well as its reception by contemporaries. It argues that while the style and size of the mausoleum is modest, its central location changed the dynastic symbolism in the cathedral, placing the Habsburgs at its center. And while it is less visible than other Habsburg cultural projects of its day, it—more than any single cultural project of the early Habsburg dynasty—demonstrates and symbolizes Habsburg ambitions in and commitment to Bohemia and is an important element in both the transformation of Prague into a Habsburg residential city and in long-term Catholic renewal efforts.

布拉格圣维特大教堂的哈布斯堡陵墓是16世纪下半叶由低地国家梅赫伦市的亚历山大·科林设计和建造的，在现代学术界通常被视为哈布斯堡王朝波希米亚地区影响力的早期体现。王朝于1527年登上波西米亚王位，直到1918年为止一直保持统治。这篇文章将艺术历史和社会文化学术联系在一起，探讨了陵墓的位置和空间特征，以及同时代陵墓的接受情况。它认为，尽管陵墓的风格和大小适中，但其中心位置改变了大教堂的朝代象征意义，将哈布斯堡王朝置于其中心。尽管它比当时的其他哈布斯堡文化项目少见，