Fountain and Plague Column
Baroque plague column of the Virgin Mary and eight saints, signed by its Prague sculptor and ringed by a stone fountain.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Fountain and Plague Column in Český Krumlov opens with a puzzle: the plague that struck the town ran from around sixteen eighty to sixteen eighty-two, yet the grateful monument you're looking at wasn't raised until seventeen fourteen, more than three decades later, and no record explains the gap. It follows the Prague sculptor Matěj Václav Jäckel, brought south to carve the Virgin Mary and the eight patron saints who stand watch below her between seventeen fourteen and seventeen sixteen, each one a name Baroque Bohemians once prayed to against plague. Look closely at the statue of Saint Jude on the column's flank, where the guide points you toward something most anonymous stonecutters of the era never dared to leave behind.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Náměstí Svornosti
Baroque plague column ringed by a hexagonal stone fountain rebuilt around it a century after its carving.
Stations of the Cross
Octagonal Baroque pilgrimage chapel ringed by a covered stone arcade, with a carved stone calvary at its porch.
Kaskádová fontána
Rococo water cascade of sea deities and seasons, restored after decades of neglect nearly ruined it.
Plešivecké nám.
Renaissance-era craftsmen's square with a stone fountain, watering trough, and two seventeenth-century wayside shrines.
Regional Museum in the Czech Krumlov
Baroque Jesuit pharmacy interior with carved shelving and roughly two hundred period vessels, alongside a giant ceramic town model.
Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
Double-naved Gothic pilgrimage shrine centered on a miracle-working medieval Madonna statue.