What to do · Mělník
The ossuary of the Church of St Peter and St Paul
Information
- Duration
- 20 min
- Season
- All year, on the church's hours
- Who it's for
- Adults and teenagers; it makes an impression on small children
Beneath the chancel of the Church of St Peter and St Paul, next to the castle, a crypt holds the remains of between 10,000 and 15,000 people from the old cemetery that surrounded the church, where bones were deposited from the 1530s until 1775. Between 1915 and 1919 the anthropologist Jindřich Matiegka arranged them: a wall of skulls called the Calvary, an anchor and a heart made of skulls and the inscription Ecce mors. It is smaller and more sober than the one at Kutná Hora, and much quieter.
With teenagers
