Sedletz Ossuary Locations

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The ossuary is an underground chapel of the All Saints cemetery church, built in the second half of the 14th century, which originally belonged to the Cistercian abbey in Sedletz. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the underground chapels of Jerusalem where pilgrims were buried.
During the Hussite wars, the monastery was burnt down and abandoned together with the ossuary. It was not rebuilt until the second half of the 15th century. In 1511, the bones from the cemetery were exhumed and moved to the ossuary’s underground , where a half-blind monk put them together into famous pyramids and bone structures. In our game, however, we decided to attribute their creation to Henry.
In its later history, the Sedletz ossuary underwent Baroque modifications and today it is one of the most popular tourist sites in the Czech Republic. The bone structures, made from the remains of more than 60,000 people, have undergone extensive renovation and, as a memento mori, are still a reminder that: dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return…

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