Marian Column
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Bulevardul 21 Decembrie 1989
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7768379898, 23.6076777927
History
It was probably erected by Count Kornis Antal, Councillor to the Government of Transylvania, and his wife Petki Anna, after the plague epidemic of 1738-1744. In 1744, they contracted the most famous sculptor of Transylvania at the time, Schuchbauer Antal. According to the contract, 15 statues of saints and 3 reclining unicorns (the heraldic beast of the Kornis family) were to be placed around the column, but it is not known whether they were ever completed. It originally stood in the centre of Kolozsvár, in a small square in front of the former Piarist church. The statue was damaged in 1944, when the war front moved in, and Mary's head was broken off, but it was restored in 1957-1958. It was dismantled by the communist authorities in 1959 and stored in the local Franciscan church, and moved to its present location in 1961.
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