Dreifaltigkeitssäule
Austria
Walk into the middle of the Hauptplatz and the column is impossible to miss. The square is counted among the finest enclosed 'hall' squares in Austria, its façades closing around you like the walls of a room, and at its centre rises this 18th-century plague column: 20 metres of white Untersberg marble climbing towards a gilded crown. It is a monument to things that did not happen. Linz came through the last great wave of plague in Central Europe lightly, foreign troops never marched in during the Turkish wars of 1683 or the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704, and a threatened great fire in 1712 was averted.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Dreifaltigkeitssäule (Linz) (de.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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