Holy Trinity Column in Karlovy Vary, Baroque sandstone column in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

The Holy Trinity Column stands on Tržiště in Karlovy Vary, a 9-metre-high structure of fine-grained sandstone from Nová Role and Vysoká. Its triangular base carries statues of Saints Adalbert, Augustine and Florian, above which angels representing faith, hope and charity sit on the cornice. A globe with a cloud supports the Coronation of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Trinity, topped by a metal halo with the dove of the Holy Spirit.

The column was erected in 1716 as thanks that Karlovy Vary escaped the plague epidemic of 1713. According to Hüttner's 1823 chronicle, Countess Vrtbová donated 1,000 guilders, the town council gave 700 and the Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star also contributed. A contract of 19 November 1714 entrusted the work to sculptor Oswald Josef Wenda.

The column's central scene, the Coronation of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Trinity, appears on no other Baroque column in Bohemia. The side figures are Saints Adalbert and Augustine, main patrons of the Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, and Saint Florian, patron of firefighters. Prayers to the Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary with chronograms for 1716 are carved on the base.

The column stands on the Tržiště terrace in the historic centre, at the corner where the lane from Zámecký vrch meets the square, in front of the town hall corner. It is set on a granite-block wall that levels the sloping ground and is edged by a wrought-iron railing, so it is seen from the street rather than entered.

The central scene, the Coronation of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Trinity, appears on no other Baroque column in Bohemia. Wenda's contract of 19 November 1714 obliged him to gild the halo, dove, crown, sceptre, crescent moon and stars himself, for a fee of 500 guilders.