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Bretagne. Finistère, Pays du Léon.
L’enclos de la Roche-Maurice comprend les trois éléments des églises bretonnes de la Renaissance léonarde:
1. L’église Saint-Yves de la Roche-Maurice qui fut édifiée entre 1509 et 1589
2. L’ossuaire qui date du XVIIème siècle et qui était l’ancienne chapelle Sainte-Anne. (On peut voir l'Ankou, au coin, à gauche.)
3. Le calvaire est formé de trois croix.
Brittany. Finistère, in the Léon area.
The enclosure of the Roche-Maurice has the three typical elements found with the Renaissance churches of Brittany:
1. The church of Saint-Yves de la Roche-Maurice built between 1509 and 1589.
2. The ossuary (ancient Saint-Anne chapel), XVIIth century. (One is able to see the Ankou on the left corner.)
3. The calvary. Here, it consists of three crosses.
This is said to be the largest remaining ossuary in Germany with the remainders of about 20,000 souls in it. It was used from 1400-1750 to make room for new graves around the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim.
Encore un bâtiment fort atypique : le corps de garde colmarien.
Bâti à la fin du XVIe siècle sur les bases d'une ancienne chapelle, devenue laïque, atenante à la collégiale (pouvant expliqué les éléments les plus gothiques).
Cet éditice civil suivit la mode de l'époque : la renaissance rhénane qui permet de voir une loggia, assez rare dans nos contrés.
Cette loggia est vraiment un élément intéressant, elle permet de par ses arcanes de voir au maximum disponible, mais avec style bien plus élégant qu'un simple balcon. Ici on impose la puissance, la richesse, le bon-goût de la riche ville de marchands qu'était Colmar. Car c'est de pas ses baies que la justice était rendu par le Magistrat qui y lisait ses condamnations.
Qui dit corps de garde dit aussi troupe municipale de maintient de la paix. En effet, le rez-de-chaussée semblait principalement pour leur affectation (par déduction). Et cet usage perdura jusqu'au début du XXe siècle, où les prussiens y avait encore leur quartier et avait ajouté un toit à la loggia. Depuis la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale, l’étage aurait vu s'installer le Service Départemental d’Architecture et du Patrimoine et de ponctuelles expositions ont lieu au rez-de-chaussée.
Sources : Archi-wiki (FR) && && Tourisme colmar (Multi) && Visit Alsace (Multi) && Monumentum (pour plus d'images)(FR)
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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. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.
Das Beinhaus, auch Ossarium oder Ossuarium (lateinisch os = Knochen), ist ein überdachter Raum, der zur Aufbewahrung von Gebeinen bestimmt ist.
-Wikipedia-
This, rather sobering photo was taken in the ossuary under St. James' church, Brno.
After Paris, Brno has the second-largest ossuary in Europe
The number of people buried here is estimated to exceed 50,000. There was a churchyard at the Church of St James (the site is now Jakubské náměstí, or St James Square) as early as the beginning of the 13th century. Like many other churchyards, its establishment within the city walls later prevented its extension. The churchyard capacity quickly became insufficient for the needs of the growing city, and a special system of burial had to be adopted in which graves were opened 10 to 12 years after burial and the remnants were removed to make room for another body in the grave. The remnants from the original graves were moved to special underground areas, called ossuaries. These also quickly filled up due to frequent plague and cholera epidemics. The reforms introduced by Joseph II in 1784 resulted in churchyards being closed down for hygienic reasons. The remnants from the graves were moved into a crypt, the churchyard wall was torn down, the area around the church was paved with the former headstones, and the ossuary was gradually forgotten.
Today, the Ossuary at the Church of St James is an attraction for tourists as well as a place of reverence. The tour is very impressive thanks in part to music composed especially for this place.
The Douaumont Ossuary (French: Ossuaire de Douaumont) is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.
It is located in Douaumont-Vaux, France, within the Verdun battlefield, and immediately next to the Fleury-devant-Douaumont National Necropolis. The ossuary was officially inaugurated on
7 August 1932 by French President Albert Lebrun.
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Cinema Extravaganza is a small Portuguese cinema/theatre, which opened in the 1940s. It has been abandoned for over 15 years.
Santo sepolcro in quercia policroma
English
Crypt ossuary : the Holy Sepulcher in policrome oak from 1702 signed by Jacques Lespagnol ,Morlaix master sculptor
Italiano
Cripta dell'Ossario : Il Santo Sepolcro in quercia policroma del 1702 firmata da Jacques Lespagnol ,maestro scultore di Morlaix .
The bone church is located in Kutna Hora, a 70 km outside of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Officially called the Sedlec Ossuary, it is often just referred to as “the bone church” and contains over 40,000 bones arranged to decorate this Roman Catholic Chapel.
The skeletal remains of a long dead Acacia tree sprawl out in the dried up river bed now known as Deadvlei. A true gem of a location in Namibia. See more images and learn how I create them at www.ryandyar.com 👍
an ossuary is a house on a graveyard, where in former times bones out of no longer needed graves were stored.
Of ossuaries that came to rest upon the platforms amongst the striking sky breaching stellar stone gnomons I would a history here be told,
and if you had the ears for such I could to you a tale of men and gods relate to you men in this age of differing gods their sacred store unfold.
I take it that you will not be taking me up upon my boast of an introduction to an oral exploration of the ways of men that compose level platforms to set in stone the land based embracement that watches Equinox and Solstice taking the light woven from The Sun and The Moon and in that returning weft adds the long lengthening warp of Stars and Star Shepherding Planets such that The Morning Star corrects our cyclical weft turned and turned about calendar and gives us the making of moments heard in the pulse of the astral divine whose breath brings warmth from ice and who in taught texture gifts inspiration to continuation of warp and voice in me with life enough to sing of the Cosmic Stirring and of the seeming endless muddling, mixing and making of all Life from Death and of seed aplenty to grow out of famine following the keening and of the kenning to dwell within waking and to prosper without dream.
Star light above and fire bright in the centre of us are not strictly necessary, but they do bring us closer in to form our listening and to forge our tale within a bounded boarded bonded ring...
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These links set below provide a much better introduction to Machrie Moor than my song sung into the wind unsettling as a bardic prologue above.
Machrie Moor Standing Stones
Near Blackwaterfoot, Arran
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit/all/machrie-moor-stand...
History and stories, Machrie Moor Standing Stones
Near Blackwaterfoot, Arran
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit/all/machrie-moor-stand...
Machrie Moor
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/161/machrie-moor
Machrie Moor
www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/2/161/17743/194651
Site Name: Machrie Moor 1.
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=439
Site Name: Machrie Moor 10 Alternative Name: Moss Farm Road, Machrie X
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1111
Machrie Moor the urban prehistorian
theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/tag/machrie-moor/
Arran, Machrie Moor, Trove Scotland
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 39699
Over 200 digital images
Arran, Machrie Moor 2, Trove Scotland
www.trove.scot/place/39702?tab=images
Fingal’s Cauldron Seat, Machrie Moor, Kilmory, Arran
www.thenorthernantiquarian.org/2014/07/13/fingals-cauldro...
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
The monument is 137 meters long with a 46-meter-high tower containing a 200-step staircase. At the top hangs a two and a half tons of bronze bell and a beacon with four rotating lights in the colors red and white. The tower itself gives a view over the battlefield.
The ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of both French and German soldiers who died on the Verdun battlefield. Through small outside windows, the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified combatants of both nations can be seen filling up alcoves at the lower edge of the building. On the inside of the ossuary building, the ceiling and walls are partly covered by plaques bearing names of French soldiers who died during the Battle of Verdun. A few of the names are from fighting that took place in the area during World War II, as well as for veterans of the Indochina and Algerian Wars. The families of the soldiers that are recognized here by name contributed for those individual plaques.
Report and full photo gallery on my website:
www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/cemiterio-ossuary-...
Cinema Extravaganza is a small Portuguese cinema/theatre, which opened in the 1940s. It has been abandoned for over 15 years.
One of the innumerable skulls at the Sedlec Ossuary, i.e. the famous bone church, in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
The ossuary is a memorial containing the remains of both French and German soldiers who died on the Verdun battlefield. Through small outside windows, the skeletal remains of at least 130,000 unidentified combatants of both nations can be seen filling up alcoves at the lower edge of the building. On the inside of the ossuary building, the ceiling and walls are partly covered by plaques bearing names of French soldiers who died during the Battle of Verdun. A few of the names are from fighting that took place in the area during World War II, as well as for veterans of the Indochina and Algerian Wars. The families of the soldiers that are recognized here by name contributed for those individual plaques.
Monument that contains the remains of 130,000 unidentified French and German soldiers. All were killed in the Battle of Verdun during the First World War.
In front of it is the largest military cemetery in the region with 15,000 graves.
Memento Mori
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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. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.
Das Beinhaus, auch Ossarium oder Ossuarium (lateinisch os = Knochen), ist ein überdachter Raum, der zur Aufbewahrung von Gebeinen bestimmt ist.
-Wikipedia-