Marian column in Pardubice

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Marian column in Pardubice - a stone column topped with a statue of the Virgin Mary, located on the market square (today Pernštýnské náměstí) of the city of Pardubice in the Czech Republic.

The stone column, atop a gilded statue of Our Lady standing on a crescent, stood on the Pardubice market in 1698. The Blessed Virgin Mary has a look towards the corner of the Pernštejnska street (Pernštýnská street), where the then town hall was located. The idea of ​​building a column as a votive thanksgiving for saving the town from the plague, raging in the area in 1680, presented in 1695 the then Pardubice dean Václav Rejšík. After receiving the permission of the archbishop, he ordered the next Pardubice dean Valentýn Klečák, an unknown Italian sculptor, today unknown. In the years 1773-1777, a local stonemason and sculptor Jakub Teplý made a rich balustrade around the column for the local councilors. There are inscriptions of the surrounding lands, as well as the coat of arms of Pardubice and Vienna. The work is decorated with the figures of eight saints, recognized as patrons of the Czech lands. At the foot of the st. Waclaw, St. Ludmila, St. Norbert and St. Wojciech, while on the balustrade St. Ivan, St. John Nepomucen, St. Joseph and St. Prokop. The whole is guarded by Czech coat of arms, placed on the corners of the balustrade. Sculpture of the Virgin Mary (according to ancient records) was high on "1 foot and 1 foot". In 1780 it was gilded at the expense of the pardubický burgher Josef Kotík.

The Pardubice statue of the Virgin Mary was pilgrimage already in the 18th century. Traditionally around the columns, the school's youth organized street theater performances. Bibliography

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