Looking for Bones in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

 

Since we've been in Prague once before, we wanted to check out a few more Czech towns.  After a little research, I found the town of Kutna Hora about an hour east of Prague.  It was supposed to have a great church and a bunch of bones.  Sold!  The boys were excited.

 

Cute pink church, but no bones.

There was a problem with the water in this area because of all the mining.  They finally found a good spot to build a well.  An artist built this around it to make it beautiful.  It is the oldest of its kind.  Water, but no bones.

 

Wooden cat and Anya, no bones.

Another neat bridge with statues.  The Czech's know how to make awesome bridges. 

 

 

Check out this church.  No bones here.



The back has the "flying buttresses" like Notre Dame in Paris.

inside
 

Finally!  A church with bones, in a cemetery of course.

Urban myth has it that a monk went mad and made things from the bones, and there are stories to suggest that partially blind monks entrusted with the care of the chapel were the first to begin piling the bones into geometric shapes.

The decorations and sculptures were created though by a woodcarver named František Rint. In 1870, he was commissioned by the landowners of the time, the Schwarzenberg family, to decorate the chapel with the bones and create a reminder of the impermanence of human life and inescapable death.


 

It was creepy, but small.

 

 

A large "chandelier" that uses every bone in the body.