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The ossuary is a major plot device in the John Connolly novel The Black Angel. [9] The ossuary is used as a location for the Dungeons & Dragons movie [10] and the movie Blood & Chocolate. In April 2002, German author Jason Dark featured the ossuary in issue 1240 Das Knochenkreuz of his long-running dime novel series Geisterjäger John Sinclair.
The Sedlec suburb of Kutná Hora is known for the Sedlec Abbey with the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist. Founded in 1142, the monastery was founded in 1142, but most of the monastery complex was built in the second half of the 13th century.
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
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Sedlec Abbey (Czech: Sedlecký klášter) is a former Cistercian monastery in Sedlec, part of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1142, it was the first Cistercian foundation in Bohemia . Along with the rest of the Kutná Hora town centre, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995, because of its outstanding Baroque ...
In 1700, the abbot of the Sedlec Abbey Jindřich Snopek decided to rebuild the old church. The reconstruction was conducted by the architect Pavel Ignác Bayer. After three years Bayer was replaced by Johann Santini-Aichel, who had worked for the Cistercians already in Zbraslav. He completed the reconstruction of the church in his original ...
Sedlec Ossuary – Kutná Hora; Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague; Ďáblice cemetery, Prague; Olšany Cemetery, Prague – the biggest graveyard in the Czech Republic; New Jewish Cemetery, Prague – built next to the Olšany Cemetery to alleviate the space problems faced by the Old Jewish Cemetery, it is the burial place of Franz Kafka
Signature of František Rint in the Sedlec Ossuary. František Rint (26 January 1835 - ?) was a 19th-century Czech woodcarver and carpenter.He was employed by the House of Schwarzenberg to organize the human bones interred at the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Christian chapel in Sedlec, in 1870.