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Nov 7, 2022 · The trip takes about an hour and costs around 119 CZK each way. This is the easiest and best way to get to Kutna Hora. You don’t need to purchase your tickets in advance. You can get them the day you want to go. There’s always plenty of room. The bone church is located at Zámecká 279, +420 326 551 049, sedlec.info. Open 7 days a week, 364 ...
Aug 13, 2023 · Step into the pages of history and witness the tale of tragedy and triumph that shaped the Sedlec Ossuary—the bone-filled cathedral with a haunting past. As we journey back in time, the shadow of the Black Death looms large. The devastating pandemic swept across Europe, leaving in its wake a sea of death and despair.
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Jul 24, 2013 · Discover Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church" in Kutna Hora, Czechia: A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
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The Gothic church standing in Sedlec near the quaint Czech Republic city of Kutná Hora looks pretty ordinary from the outside, but head into the basement to discover something chilling: Bones of thousands of humans were bleached then ornately carved, and now artfully cover everything in sight.
As the story goes, a local abbot made a pilgrimage in the 13th century to Jerusalem and brought back some sacred soil to spread across the church cemetery. Word got out, making the Sedlec cemetery one of the region’s most popular places to be buried.
When the plague ravaged Europe in the 14th century, nearly 30,000 victims were added to the plots. The Crusades then brought 10,000 more casualties to rest in this particular cemetery, not to mention other burials followed over time.
When the community started to construct the Gothic church in the 15th century, many bones were moved and stacked in pyramids in the ossuary beneath the new building. Everything was left undisturbed until 1870, when the church hired a local woodcarver, Francis Rint, to create something beautiful from the staggering piles of bones.
He definitely succeeded. After bleaching and carving the bones, he used them to decorate the holy space. Rint made chains of skulls to stretch across entryways. Chalices and crosses were constructed from hips and femurs. There's even a detailed family crest, thanking the aristocratic family that funded the initiative, adorning a wall.
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A long-exposure photograph shows a ghost-like image of a man sitting at a beach in the United States .
A long-exposure photograph shows a ghost-like image of a man sitting at a beach in the United States.
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Kutna Hora Bone Church - one of the most curious sights in the Czech Republic. Getting there, opening hours, admission.
By Train. Buses leave approximately every two hours from the main train station in Prague, Hlavní Nádraží, to Kutná Hora Hlavní Nádraží (h.l.) Tickets cost around 100 Kč ($4.40) and the train takes 40 minutes. Check times here. From the Kutná Hora h.l. train station, it is about a 15 minute walk to 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: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých ), part of the former Sedlec Abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of ...
