The dominant of the Palacký Square is a baroque Marian column from 1730–1740. It was originally built on the Large Square ofter the great black death in 1586. Marian columns were erected to express thanks for diversion of a Black Death epidemics and as a pray to the Holy Virgin to save the town from the Black Death attack in the future. After the Second World War it was placed onto the Palacký Square. Initially simple column with a statue of Mary the Virgin was enriched by statues of St Jan of Nepomuk, St Vojtěch, St Josef and St Antonín and four angels in the half of 18^thcentury.