Plague Column, Timișoara
Coloana Ciumei | |
| Location | Union Square, Timișoara |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 45°45′28″N 21°13′44″E / 45.75778°N 21.22889°E |
| Designer | Georg Raphael Donner |
| Material | Sandstone |
| Beginning date | 1739 |
| Completion date | 1740 |
| Dedicated to | Great Plague of 1738 |
| LMI code | TM-III-m-A-06313 |
Plague Column (Romanian: Coloana Ciumei; German: Pestsäule), also known as Holy Trinity Monument, is a Baroque monument in Timișoara's Union Square. It was placed in the central square of the city, then known as Domplatz, in 1740 as an ex voto of chamber councilor Johann Anton Deschan von Hansen. The monument belongs to the typology of plague columns, widespread in the Baroque era throughout the South German, Bohemian and Hungarian space.