Bone House (Beinhaus)
Guide
Photo: Werner100359 · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
≈ A$4SightAllow 10–20 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A small chapel beside the parish church holding hundreds of skulls stacked on shelves, many painted with names, dates and wreaths of flowers or ivy.
A brief history
With so little ground for a graveyard, old graves were cleared after some years and the bones kept here. The custom of painting skulls began in the 18th century; the last was added in the 1990s.
Tips
- Best time
- Morning, before the queue
- Cost
- About €2–3 (check)
- Allow
- 10–20 min
- Hours
- Usually daily from about 10:00 to the late afternoon in summer, shorter in winter (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The village: The market square, the two churches and the lakeshore houses. Rooms here are few and dear; staying the night means seeing it empty.
- Access
- Not step-free (stairs)
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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