Rychnov in Moravia – Marian (also plague) column

In Rychnov in Moravia (although Pardubice region, Svitavy district, Svitavy is also historically Moravian) we can find a relatively interesting concentration of interesting sculptural works.
One of them is the statue of the Virgin Mary, which introduces the approach to the local church. The highly baroque work from 1717 is referred to as the Plague Column. It is reported that 1715 people succumbed to the epidemic in 93. At the beginning of the 18th century, indeed…