The Skull House in the Most Beautiful Village in Austria

Hallstatt - "the most beautiful village in the world" - is becoming a must-see destination on recent European tours. In the middle of the village is a small house that houses more than 2,000 skulls.

Hallstatt village lies southwest of the vast Hallstätter Lake, and is surrounded by the misty Alps. The landscape is so captivating that people often refer to it as the “Pearl of Austria”.

The Skull House is located in the heart of the beautiful town of Hallstatt.

If you like the weird and the mysterious, visit the Bone House, also known as Beinhaus. This place is the resting place of more than 2,000 people, with skulls stacked on top of each other.

The Bone House is located in the Hallstatt village cemetery. Beinhaus has been a place to store ossuaries since the 1700s, when cemeteries in the area around the lake were becoming increasingly crowded.

At that time, cremation was forbidden, so bodies were exhumed after being buried for 10-15 years. People took the skulls, cleaned them, and dried them until they turned ivory white.

The beauty of the town of Hallstatt contrasts with the eerie atmosphere of the bone house.

The remains were stacked in the house to save space in the crowded cemetery. Blood relatives were often placed next to each other. Skulls were decorated with patterns for easy identification.

Locals decorate and write information about their deceased relatives on the skulls. You can also find some messages of love and courage on them. However, there are still some unclaimed remains in the house.

The skeletons were stacked in the house to save space.

The addition of skulls to the house and its decoration ended in the 1960s. However, some believe that some remains were added in recent years. In 1995, a skull was brought into the house. It was the remains of a woman who died in 1983. She had requested that her body be placed in Beinhaus.

The house contains more than 2,000 skeletons dug up from the Hallstatt cemetery.

This creepy house attracts many tourists when visiting the town of Hallstatt, becoming a famous place, and also a part of the history of the beautiful land. Visitors can experience the feeling of fear when walking along the trails of the skull house, creating a deep contrast with the picturesque beauty of Hallstatt.

According to Zing.vn