Pfarrkirche und Beinhaus

Due to the limited land area of Harstadt, the bones of the deceased person will be removed from the grave after 10 years of burial and placed in the skeleton hall in the cave on the mountain, and the names and skulls of the years of life and death will be stacked together to form a human bone chamber, and a total of 1,200 skulls will be piled up in the human bone hall. 610 of them were also painted.

This small pointed church, compared with other magnificent buildings in Europe, looks a bit ordinary and simple, but it complements the lakeside town, the mountains, colored wooden houses, blue lake, are so light and fresh, but it is unforgettable.

Perhaps because of the scarcity of residents, Halstadt's winter is particularly quiet, and the snow falls on the pointed roof. It is silent, just to give the people a beautiful snow scene in the early morning, which makes people linger. Can't help sighing. The pointed church in the valley is particularly eye-catching.

Built on the mountainside, the church is the most important church in the area. It is an important place for religious rituals. Next to the church is a cemetery. Because of the limited space in the town, the bones were removed from the grave after a decade of burial and placed in the bones of the cave in the mountain. The skull of the ancestors of the human bones is engraved with names and dates of birth and death, forming the human bones chamber. It reflects the admiration and cherishment of the locals for life.

It takes a little courage to come here. Most of the town's residents are Catholic, so this small Catholic church is set up in a corner, and the planning is not very formal. If you don't look at the cross above, I would think it is a warehouse. In one corner there are a large number of skulls. Because the town is inch of land and gold, it will be removed for more than ten years. I don't understand why Catholic predominate places retain this very primitive ritual.

There is also a "bone church" in the village of Harstadt, although not the size of the Czech Kutrachola human bone church, but the patterned skull and femur in such a dense way to collectively present is very shocking. The skeleton housed the villagers in Harstadt village for hundreds of years, who voluntarily retained the last material form because of the lack of cemeteries, and there seemed to be some collectivism that was endless for generations after being friends and neighbors. Until now, if they wish, the person buried in the ground can still remove the skull and femur from the burial chamber after ten to fifteen years of earthing according to his will. The last skull in the burial chamber belongs to a woman who was placed in the chamber in 1983. Here I also popularize the simple meaning of the plant pattern on the bones - like leaves represent glory, laurel leaves represent victory, ivy represents life, roses represent love... also look at the graveyard in front of the bones, is it a little bit of a cemetery for the vitality of gardening love What is life, the meaning of life?

I just saw so many people's bones and I was a little scared, but I looked at it and it felt like a work of art. The upbringing here is small, but it is just the right setting off the beauty here. The pointed church roof makes the scenery more three-dimensional.