Vienna Holy Trinity column, which is also known as Holy Trinity column, located on the Graben in Vienna. Is one of the most famous and prominent sculptures in the city.

The plague was probably the worst epidemic to medieval Europe. It is known that the epidemic 1348-1352, claimed the lives of a third of the population of Europe. In 1679 plague came to Vienna. It was one of the major epidemics. The population of Vienna, at that time amounting to about 100 thousand people, fell by a third.

It all started a year earlier, in 1678, in the Leopoldstadt. In Vienna then was a wooden column (architect Johann Frevert). By mid-summer the plague got to Vienna, the Emperor Leopold with his family left town, vowing to erect the column of the Holy Trinity in honor of the deliverance of Vienna from the plague. In 1683 began construction of a new plague column, the one that has survived to the present day. The works were supervised by Fischer von Erlach. In addition to his creation of the column took part in Rohmiller and Strudel, who created the statue of the Emperor, kneeling. The column was opened in 1693. Despite the long period of construction, frequent design changes, as well as a large number working on the project sculptors, monument looks quite harmonious.

It is worth noting that the epidemic of plague in 1679 associated with the appearance of a comic song "Dear Augustin". In the midst of the plague, when the city was plunged into fear, terror and death, in a small tavern in the Meat market whiled away the evening a Augustine. The young man was a singer and musician, as well as a big drinker. Being heavily drunk, one night he was walking down the street and fell into a ditch, where lay the dead bodies of plague citizens. Slept in a hole till the morning with the first rays of the sun, Augustine began to sing his song "Oh, my dear Augustin, all is lost! ", thus attracting attention to himself. Having spent the night, Augustine does not have the plague. Cheerful townspeople just picked up a merry song, which became very popular. Augustine himself died in 1685 from alcohol poisoning.