Kutna Hora 07 I see dead people

After 1400 one of the abbots had a church of All -Saints erected in Gothic style in the middle of the cemetery and under it a chapel destined for the deposition of bones from abolished graves, a task which was begun by a half blind Cistercian monk after the year 1511. The charnel-house was remodelled in Czech Baroque style between 1703 - I710 by the famous Czech architect, of the Italian origin ,Jan Blazej SANTIM-Aichl. The present arrangement of the bones dates from 1870 and is the work of a Czech wood-carver, Frantisek RINT (you can see his name, put together from bones, on the right-hand wall over the last bench). Our ossuary contains the remains of about 40 000 people. The largest collections of bones are arranged in the form of bells in the four corners of the chapel.