Mariánský sloup (Broumov)

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A beautiful and tall column with sculptures.

A beautiful plague Marian column from the beginning of the 18th century. Such columns were placed in memory of the epidemics that continued to ravage various regions of Europe. In 1706 an epidemic of plague (bacterial infection) passed through Central Europe, but it was possible an epidemic of "blood fever", now known as "Ebola") The founder of the Broumów column was abbot Otmar Daniel Zinke from Strzegom (thanks to whom the baroque pearl of Lower Silesia was created - the monastery in Legnickie Pole.) The author of the Marian column in Broumov was the sculptor Jan Brokoff. His son Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff was the author of the sculptural decorations in the basilica in Krzeszów, while Jan Brokoff's student - Jan Jerzy Urbański was the co-author of the famous Nepomucen monument in Ostrów Tumski in Wrocław. The column in Broumov depicts the Virgin Mary with the child at the top of the column in the Solomonic order (spiral shaft) - fashionable in the Baroque (thanks to the Jesuits). On the sides there are sculptures of patrons, including St. Jadwiga of Silesia, St. Adalbert, St. Benedict - the patron saint of the local Benedictine monastery. There is also St. Barbara - who was called during the plague. We also see St. Margaret with the dragon - patron of the dying.