Ossuary In Czechoslovakia
"By far the strangest tourist attraction in Kutna Hora isn't in the old town, but rather in a former town called Sedlec which is now a suburb of Kutna Hora. The local monastery's graveyard began to overflow during an outbreak of the plague and so the 14th century All Saints' Chapel was converted into an Ossuary, or bone storage building. Then in 1870 a woodcarver called Frantisek Rint came up with the idea of arranging all of those boring bones into various interesting patterns and structures, like crosses and the meter and a half tall goblets you can see on either side of the stairs leading down into the chapel. He even used the bones to spell out his name on the right-hand wall at the bottom of the stairs... With around 40,000 skeletons stored in the ossuary, Frantisek certainly had plenty of materials available to flex his artistic skills." Link
Note to self: hop on over to Czechoslovakia ASAP!
Posted by: lucille | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 09:12 AM
Absolutely incredible! I must go there, this place looks like Count Dracula's palace!
Posted by: lasourceauxbois | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 07:46 AM
Oh my god...that is right up my alley...er...aisle. That's right up on my list of Places to Go before I die.
Posted by: susanna | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 01:41 PM
Ooooh - I want to do that at my house!! LOL
Posted by: Pandora | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 01:39 PM
Ulla, this is totally amazing! What an imagination, turning death into something so
creative. Wow neat Ghoulish post. Denise
Posted by: Pinkie Denise | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 09:55 AM
Oh my!! This is so creepy and amazing...
Posted by: Casey | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 08:41 AM
This is the creepiest building material ever! I didn't know Czechoslovakia invented halloween.
Posted by: corine@ Hidden in France | Monday, October 29, 2007 at 08:24 AM