Plague Column

Connected Sites: 13

Definition
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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Connected Sites

  • Banska Stiavnica
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.92
    153
    10
    "The heart of the town is the historical Trinity Square dominated by a monumental plague column." (wiki)
  • Cesky Krumlov
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.96
    272
    17
    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.
    See commons.wikimedia.org
  • Telc
    Telc
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.11
    182
    13
    built in 1718, following a plague epidemic in 1681
    See www.telc.eu
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.37
    235
    12
    Column in Krems an der Donau and in Melk
  • Naples
    Naples
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.48
    436
    9
    Obelisco di San Domenico
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Kutna Hora
    Kutna Hora
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.35
    256
    14
    "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)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Vienna
    Vienna
    Austria
    Inscribed: 2001
    4.02
    592
    20
    "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)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    586
    16
    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
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.82
    168
    10
    at Valtice, Pestsäule (1680)
  • Holy Trinity Column
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.54
    181
    10
    "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)
  • Hallstatt-Dachstein
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.61
    244
    16
    "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."
    See www.idam.at
  • Graz
    Graz
    Austria
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.97
    256
    10
    Holy Trinity Plague Column on Karmeliterplatz
  • Fertö/Neusiedlersee
    Fertö/Neusiedlersee
    Austria, Hungary
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.29
    187
    8
    Purbach (1713)