Marian column (Telč)
The Marian column in Telč (German Teltsch ), a Czech city in Jihlava District of Olomouc region , was built from 1716 to 1720. The Marian column on the eastern side of the market square is a protected cultural monument.
The citizen Zuzana Hodová, who lived on the market square in house No. 52, bequeathed 1000 guilders in her will for the construction of the Marian column. This was created by David Lipart († 1720) from Brtnice .
description
The pillar of cloud studded with putti bears a star-wreathed image of the Virgin Mary without a child of the type of Maria Immaculata . She looks to the northwest across the town square to the castle . The column stands on a three-tier square pedestal . Its top level is flanked on the front by the apostle James the Elder and on the back by guardian angels. In front of the corners of the second level are the two plague saints Rochus and Sebastian (front) as well as Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver (back). Two niches are set in the lowest plinth, in which the plague saint Rosalia (front) and the penitent Maria Magdalena (back) are depicted.
literature
- Josef Hrdlička, Markéta Hrdličková, Antonín Bína: Telč. Sights in and around the city. Dobrý důvod, Telč 2007, ISBN 978-80-903546-4-7 , pp. 13-15.
- Baedeker Czech Republic. 6th edition, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8297-1474-7 , p. 417.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 37868 / 7-5249 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 15 ° 27 ′ 16 ″ E