Jindřichův Hradec – plague column of the Holy Trinity

Among the high-quality examples of South Bohemian Baroque sculpture is also the Holy Trinity Column, which is the dominant feature of Jindřich Hradec's Náměstí Míru. The twenty-meter high column dates from the period 1764 to 1766 and is also sometimes referred to as the column of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Its author is the well-known sculptor Matouš (Matyáš) Strachovský from Dačice. In this case, the fact that the column is…