Thursday, August 31, 2006

Kostnice Ossuary

In the small town of Kutna Hora, lies the Kostnice Ossuary. After the plague wiped out 40k people and the bones started to stack up, the owners of the church instructed the carpenter at the time to "get creative" with the piles of bones.. Here are the results.

You can see more skulls in the photo set

Signature of the creator T. Rint

Cross at the entrance

Originally Rint built 6 "pyramid" structures, today 4 are left.

Looking into one the pyramids

The coat of arms of the family who owned the church and "comissioned" his work

Old and decrepit altar with Christ.

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