Catacombs, tombs, ossuaries, and boneyards
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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-