Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

Coat of Arms for the Schwarzenberg family, Sedlec Ossuary; beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints. The church and ossuary were constructed around 1400; the bones are from mass graves resulting from both the Black Death and the Hussite Wars.

Woodcarver František Rint was employed by the Schwarzenberg family in 1870 to put the bone heaps into order.

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