Trinity column (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)
The Trinity column in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is a plague column that was commissioned by the Carinthian provinces and erected on the square in front of the Church of the Holy Spirit from 1680 . In 1965 the votive monument was moved to its current location on the Old Square.
Building history
The column, erected in 1680/81, was initially made of wood and stood on Heiligengeistplatz, where both the hospital and the city's oldest cemetery were located. The reason for the erection of the monument was the thanks of the estates and the population for being spared the plague , which was achieved through strict isolation of the city and hygiene measures. After the siege and the subsequent liberation of Vienna from the Turks (1683), it was replaced by a stone version by 1689, which took on the character of a victory column: at the base it is reminiscent of the plague, crowned by the defeated crescent, over which the christian cross stands.
After a hall was to be built on Heiligengeistplatz for the fish market taking place there in 1897, the column was moved to the west so that it stood in the middle of a small park. In 1965 the Dreifaltigkeitssäule had to change its location again because the Heiligengeistplatz was used as the central bus station in the course of the redesign of the inner city. The pillar found its new location at Alter Platz, which was converted into Austria's first pedestrian zone in 1961 .
The Trinity Column took the place of the Johannes Nepomuk Column, which was erected in 1737 and blown up in 1874 "for traffic reasons". The founder was the Burgrave of Klagenfurt, Wolf Siegmund von Rosenberg. Some statues that were recovered from the rubble of the imposing monument enthroned on a seven-step substructure are now in the arcades of the cathedral facade .
Building description
At the top of the slender column with a Corinthian capital there is a ball, and above the defeated crescent moon is the Christian cross. The original three-tier substructure with a stone baluster railing no longer exists; instead the column stands on a low, square base. On the east side of the base there is a marble relief of the mercy seat with the Holy Spirit, including inscriptions related to the plague with a chronogram and an inscription for restoration. The base and inscription plaque were restored in 1996.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 399
- Siegfried Hartwagner: Klagenfurt City (= Austrian Art Monograph , Volume X). Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg, reprint 1994, without ISBN, p. 64/65.
Individual evidence
- ↑ numerals - What does this text mean with capitalized letters? Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 31 ″ N , 14 ° 18 ′ 27.5 ″ E