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Dreifaltigkeitssäule

Trinity Column
1689

Klagenfurt / Dreifaltigkeitssäule   Klagenfurt / Dreifaltigkeitssäule

Description

Column with at a foot a sculpture of the Holy Trinity and in the top the symbols of the world religions.

Inscription(s)

InDIVIsæ trIaDI
patrI non genIto, fILIo
VnIgenIto, spIrItVI
ab hIs proCeDentI.

[1681]

ob VrbIs hVIVs Lares
a Veneno pestIs
MIserICorDIter serVatos.

[1681]

In genVa hVMILIter prostratI
proVInCI&#aelig; proCeres, et CIVes
aC CeptI benefICII.

[1681]

neu errichtet
von der stadtgemeinde:
1896-1897.

durch die landeshauptstadt
vom heiligengeistplatz
nach hier überstellt
und restauriert
1965-1966.

Klagenfurt - Dreifaltigkeitssäule

Marian, Holy Trinity and Plague Columns (Mariensäule, Dreifaltigkeitssäule, Pestsäule)

Marian and Holy Trinity columns are religious monuments with a statue of Saint Mary or a depiction of the Holy Trinity on top of a column. Around the base of the column are usually various saints. Marian columns were built to thank the Virgin Mary for intervention to quell the pestilence and other scourges. The first of those was erecrted in Vienna in 1667 (Mariensäule) and the second in 1679 also in Vienna at the Graben, the Pestsäule.
The purpose of the Holy Trinity columns was usually simply to celebrate the church and the faith, although the plague motif could play a role.
Erecting religious monuments in the form of a column surmounted by a figure or a Christian symbol was a gesture of public faith that flourished in the Catholic countries of Europe especially in the 17th and 18th centuries (Wikipedia)

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Locatie (N 46°37'31" - E 14°18'27") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: atka036; Photograph: 12 September 2016
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