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The Plague Column or Trinity Column, Vienna, Austria #295887057
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The Plague Column or Trinity Column, 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 most well-known and prominent sculptural pieces of art in the city. The column has a complex iconography, the basic message of which is that the plague and the Ottomans` Second Siege of Vienna, both of them punishments for sin, were averted or defeated by the piety and intercession of the Emperor Leopold I.
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