This hilltop cemetery was built around the 12th-century church, which was originally the village's main church. Access is via a path of over 500 meters. This rather small cemetery is still in use. At the front, in what was originally the garden of the caretaker's house, a new section has been created, where burials are still taking place. Further along, around the church, the existing gravestones are in considerable disrepair. The most remarkable feature of this cemetery is the ossuary, or charnel house.
The ossuary was built at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. It was intended to collect the skulls and bones that were dug up each time a new burial took place. Of the five to six hundred ossuaries in this region, only about thirty remain today.
A sign on the ossuary's facade states that there are 40,000 skulls in the ossuary. However, after the dismantling and reassembly of these skulls between 2015 and 2021 (to allow for the building's restoration), only 6,000 skulls and complete remains of the deceased were counted. That amounts to approximately 40,000 bones. This undoubtedly explains the confusion...
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