If you come to Most today, you will discover an exceptional sculptural work of a sacral character on the 1st square. Plague Column with a statue of St. Anny occupies this privileged place in the city center as a reminder of its original location on the 1st Square in the old Most, which was sacrificed by coal mining. Column with a statue of St. Anny was built on the 1st square of Most in 1681 by the sculptor and stonemason Jan Petr of Tuscany (Giovanni Pietro de Toscana) in memory of the victims of the great plague epidemic.

The work consists of a two-stage pedestal, the shaft of a column surrounded by angels, a composite head and the top statue of St. Anny with Jesus and the Virgin Mary. On the corners of the lower floor are depicted figures of saints protecting from the plague of St. Agnes of Rome, St. Rosalie of Palermo, St. Roch and St. Sebastian . The top statue of St. Anny was originally decorated with gilding and a column of colored paint, as evidenced by the city’s contract with the burgher of Most and painter Christoph Lillig. The composition of the column’s architecture bears elements influenced by the northern Italian late Mannerist sculptural tradition, which had no other representation in the Most region at that time.