Stock Photo: The Decor Of Human Skulls And Bones In An Ossuary
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Element of decoration of human skulls and bones in an ossuary of the Sedlec, Kutna-Hora, Czech Republic, Europe (Gothic Cemetery Church of All Saints ) - Gothic chapel in Sedlec, a suburb of Czech town of Kutna-Hora, with human skulls and bones. The decoration of the chapel took about 40 000 human skeletons. The present appearance of the chapel acquired in 1870: the corners of the Cathedral placed pyramid heaps of bones, in the nave there is a huge bone chandelier decorated with garlands of skulls. Among the other works of art can be noted the altar the keepers of the gifts, located on the sides of the altar, as well as a large family coat of arms Schvancenberger. Created at the beginning of the XVI century as a result of transfer of the remains of the graveyard Cistercian monastery. In 1278 Henry, the Abbot of Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutna Mountain, was sent by the Czech king Otakar II in the Holy land. Back he brought a bit of land from Calvary, and I threw her to the cemetery of the Abbey. The news of this spread, and the cemetery became a popular burial place among the inhabitants of the Central Europe. Many thousands of people wanted to be buried in this cemetery. Medieval war and of the epidemic, in particular the epidemic of the Black death in the middle of the XIV century and the Hussite wars in the early XV century, added to the cemetery, which resulted in an increased greatly. Around the year 1400 in the center of the cemetery was built Gothic Ca
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