Patrick W

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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The room beneath the church was used as a chapel and due to a large number of human bones to be preserved, they decided to decorate the room with those skeletons and bones.

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When a church was build in the center of the cemetery, they also built a room beneath the church purposed to keep the large amount of bones to be preserved. The number of skeletons in this cemetery was around 40.000 to 70.000 people.

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Among thousands of skeleton and bone, some of the people that was buried there were also knights and soldiers from the Hussite wars. It can be recognized by seeing a skeleton that has a wound from sword, flails, maces, etc.

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