Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

Signature of woodcarver František Rint, 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.

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

img687Czech RepublicKutna HoraSedlecchurchtravel