Plague Column

WHS with a Plague Column within their borders. A Plague Column is a religious monument depicting the Virgin Mary on top, built in thanksgiving for the end of a plague.

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Banska Stiavnica "The heart of the town is the historical Trinity Square dominated by a monumental plague column." (wiki)
Cesky Krumlov Svornosti square: The main artistic landmark of the square is the plague column topped with the statue of the Virgin Mary and eight saints, the patron saints of the town and protectors against plague.
Fertö/Neusiedlersee Purbach (1713)
Graz Holy Trinity Plague Column on Karmeliterplatz
Hallstatt-Dachstein "Die Dreifaltigkeitssäule auf dem Hallstätter Marktplatz wurde im Jahr 1743 von dem Salzburger Bildhauer Joseph Anton Pfaffinger aus Untersberger Marmor geschaffen, und im Jahr 1744 aufgestellt."
Holy Trinity Column "The main purpose was to celebrate the Catholic Church and faith, partly caused by feeling of gratitude for ending a plague, which struck Moravia (now in the Czech Republic) between 1713 and 1715." (wiki)
Kutna Hora "The plague column in Kutná Hora was created by the Jesuit sculptor František Baugut in 1714–1715. It is a culturally valuable Baroque work, created as a pieta for those who died during the plague epidemic in 1713." (wiki)
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape at Valtice, Pestsäule (1680)
Naples Obelisco di San Domenico
Prague Holy Trinity Column in the Lesser Town (Malostranské náměstí), which was completed in 1715 specifically to commemorate the end of the 1713-14 Bubonic Plague
Telc built in 1718, following a plague epidemic in 1681
Vienna "a Holy Trinity column located on the Graben, a street in the inner city of Vienna, Austria. Erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679, the Baroque memorial is one of the best known and most prominent sculptural artworks in the city." (wiki)
Wachau Cultural Landscape Column in Krems an der Donau and in Melk

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