Most people in Brno don’t know that we have the second biggest european ossuary in our town. There are 30,000 dead men and women resting under the pavement of Náměstí sv. Jakuba sq. This picture was taken in the 1930s and shows an underground passage filled with bones and skulls:
Ossuary of St. James Church in the 1930s
The place was rediscovered in 2001. If everything goes well, general public will get the access to the ossuary in 2010 or 2011. Don’t look forward for some sick spectacle, it will be “only” a decent place for meditation and thinking about life and death.
Source: thesis “St. James The Great Church Ossuary In Brno” by Barbora Roučková
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