The Ossuary - Chlum, Czech Republic - Charnel Chapels, Charnel Houses and Ossuaries on Waymarking.com

The Ossuary (Charnel House)
On a place not far from the Austrian North Army's headquarters there is an ossuary (charnel house) in a maintained park. Soldiers‘ bones found on different parts of the battle?eld were deposited under a granite sarcophagus laying on a stepped basis and covered with a roof raised by six columns.

The pseudo Gothic chamel house was gained as a gift by Viennese Oberbaurat (head architectural counselor) Paul Noble Wasserburger, who entrusted Viennese Oberbaurat (head architectural counselor) Friedrich Freiherr Schmidt, master builder of the St Stephan Cathedral in Vienna, with elaboration of the design. The chamel house was established by the Central Association for Maintenance of Monuments in Bohemia and built by Frantisek Vondracek, a professor at Technical
College for Sculptors and Masons at Horice, from Leithakalk limestone in the summer of 1889. In 1935 it was taken down and repaired by the school at Hofice at the cost of 40,800. - Czechoslovak crowns.

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