The Holy Trinity Column stands in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It is a Baroque Marian plague column, built from 1716 to 1754. Wenzel Render, a monumental mason and privileged imperial architect, conceived and designed it, and he helped finance the first stage. He died early in the work. Johann Ignaz Rokický completed it.
The base has three levels, with 18 stone saint sculptures and 14 reliefs. The top is crowned by a gilded copper Holy Trinity with the Archangel Gabriel, and the Assumption of the Virgin sits beneath. Andreas Zahner made 18 sculptures and nine reliefs in seven years, and Simon Forstner made the gilded copper sculptures.
A small chapel inside the column has reliefs of Old Testament offerings and the death of Jesus. A replica stone shot is half-buried in the stem where a Prussian cannonball hit during the Seven Years' War. UNESCO listed the column in 2000.
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