Ossuary history
The Church of All Saints and Ossuary was built during the first half of the 14th century and formed part of the Cistercian monastery which doesn´t exist ...
Ossuary
The kostnice (ossuary) is an underground chapel of All Saints Cemetery and originally was a part of the Cistercian abbey in Sedlec, which was founded in 1142 by ...
Sedlec Ossuary
The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: Kostnice v Sedlci; German: Sedletz-Beinhaus) is a Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: ...
Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church"
Sedlec Ossuary has a long history, beginning in the 13th century when the Abbot of the Sedlec Monastery (Abbot Henry) brought a handful of earth back from a ...
Sedlec Ossuary History
Building the ossuary was given to a half-blind monk who arranged the bones. But more than 300 years later, the bones were arranged artistically as they are today. In 1870, a local woodcarver, Frantisek Rindt, was tasked with decorating the chapel with the
Sedlec Ossuary
In the 15th century, a Gothic church was built near the cemetery, and its basement was used as an ossuary. The bones stayed there for centuries till 1870, when ...
Sedlec Ossuary, Church Of Bones
The church itself was built around 1400. However, the history of the Sedlec Ossuary stretches even further into the past – back to 1278, to be precise. The ...
The Czech 'Church of Bones'
2019年6月11日 — Dubbed the Church of Bones, the story behind this grisly attraction begins in 1278, when the King of Bohemia sent the abbot of the Sedlec ...
Visiting the Sedlec Ossuary
2024年2月14日 — The story of the Sedlec Ossuary really starts in 1278 when an abbott came back from Jerusalem with a jar of 'holy soil'. He scattered it on this ...