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Plague between Prague and Vienna

Vienna’s prominent landmark, the Pestsäule (Plague Column), commemorates the devastating bubonic plague epidemic of 1679 that killed thousands of the city’s in- habitants. The gigantic, three sided marble pyramidis covered with baroque clouds is dedicated to the Trinity and the Nine Choirs of Angels. Although pledged by Emperor Leopold I in the very year of the outbreak of the disease, the...

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