It took 10 years, over 50 thousand human skeletons, and a family of four to construct. It’s Prince Scwarzenburg’s ossuary at the All Saint’s Church in Sedlec near Kunta Hora, Czech Republic. The ossuary was finished in 1870, but most of the bones date back to Kiunta Hora’s black plague of 1378.
Where did they get the skeletons from??
are these muslim’s skeletons who imprisoned during crusaider battles?
if they are, this would be so sad.
Not really sure where the skulls came from. As the post says most come from the “Kiunta Hora’s black plague of 1378″.
I find this absolutly beautiful! An expression of humaness and spirituallity done very poetically. I’m so glad you took the time to make this available!
“Ossuary, Sedlex, Czech Republic: as the story goes, in the 13th century tha abbot of the Cistercian monastry in Sedlec went to Jerusalem and came back with sacred soil, which transformed the site in Sedlec into the Holy Land. Tens of thousands of people were buried there, including victims of the Black Death. The small gaveyard could only cope by constantly emptying graves and storing the bones in the ossuary, allowing new bodies to be buried. By the 16th century, a monk had started to salvage and arrange the bones into giant heaps, symbolising the bells that will toll on the Day of Judgement. In the late 19th century , the bones were rearranged again into completely bizarre, baraque compositions – for example, a chandelier incorporating every bone in the body…”
It’d be bizarre not to. I’d like to make something similar, but as always it’s finding the supply of bones that’s the problem.
I’ve found this site after reading “The Black Angel” by John Connolly. The Sedlec ossuary is the central theme to the fiction -worth a read.
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creeps me out a little