Plague house. A sad memory of the last plague epidemic in 1713. New Town in Moravia.

 
The plague of 1713. The last great plague. The Angel of Death took its toll throughout Central Europe. In Prague alone, according to historical demographic studies, two hundred thousand people, a third of the population, died at that time. Epidemics and ubiquitous death were deeply inscribed in the baroque pieties of the bereaved souls of the population. There are Plague Columns in the squares of almost all our cities. And almost without exception it comes from...