Plague Column (Wiener Pestsäule)
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This exuberant Baroque column rises in the middle of the Graben, a pedestrian street in central Vienna, commemorating the end of a devastating plague epidemic in the 1670s and 1680s. Completed in 1693, it was commissioned by Emperor Leopold I in fulfilment of a vow. A swirling mass of gilded and white sculpture depicts clouds, angels, and figures, with the emperor kneeling and Faith triumphing over the plague. It is among the finest of the plague columns of Central Europe.
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