Vinařský sloup, Wine column in Prosek, Prague, Czech Republic
The Vinařský sloup stands on Na Proseku street and features a pedestal with relief carvings of four grape clusters between a chapel and the column body. The monument is approximately 2 meters tall and sits near several grapevines that keep the region's historical heritage alive today.
The original column was erected in the first half of the 17th century and stood at the border between Prosek and Libeň near the Máchalka vineyard. A replica of the monument was placed at its current location in 1994, after the original structure had shifted 350 meters during road construction work.
The column's niche later held a Marian statuette or a head of Christ with a crown of thorns, so old inventories list it as a wayside shrine; a 1901 survey of the Karlín district calls it a boží muka, and its 1903 German version a Martersäule. The large Prosek vineyard "Na nebeských horách" disappeared around 1740.
The replica stands in the lower part of Na Proseku street, about 350 m from the column's original site at the Prosek–Libeň border. The 1905 raising of Prosecká náves buried the original pedestal's lower section below ground level, so the replica's base sits partly sunken. Grapevines planted around it mark the link to the former vineyard.
The lower pedestal section of the original monument lies buried beneath the ground because the terrain has risen over the centuries. Visitors today see only the upper portion of the relief carvings with the grape depictions, while the historical base rests underground.
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