Skull Chapel

The "Skull Chapel" was built between 1776 and 1784 by Father Wacław Tomaszek. Inspired by the catacombs of Rome, the priest decided to use the bones found around the building (located on an old battlefield) to transform it into an ossuary chapel.

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Broumov Abbey

The Broumov Abbey dates back to 1213 when King Ottokar I of Bohemia offered the Broumov fiefdom to the Benedictines of Brenau Abbey. When the Sudeten German-speaking populations were expelled from the new Czechoslovakia after the Second World War, the monks found refuge in 1946 in Rohr Abbey in Bavaria and were replaced by Czech monks, who themselves were expelled a few years later. After it was returned to the church in 1989, it is no longer inhabited and, in agreement with its administrator, houses the collections of the Broumov Municipal Museum.