To commemorate the city's deliverance from the…

1679 CE

To commemorate the city's deliverance from the Great Plague and later waves of the disease, the Viennese will erect monuments such as the famous Baroque Karlskirche with the associated sixty-nine foot-plague columns known as the Pestsäule.

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Vienna > Wien Wien Austria View →

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Austria, Archduchy of View → Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire View →

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Western Architecture: 1540 to 1684 View → Great Plague of Vienna View →

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Architecture View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View → Catastrophe View →

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