The Oppenheim Ossuary, contains between 14,000 and 20,000
skeletons all collected from the cemeteries belonging to the church. As cemeteries
got full, graves were reused. Old bones and skeletons were dug up and placed in
the small room behind the church. Tour guide Helga Schmadel said most of the
bones likely came from graves of residents who died during the 16th and 17th
centuries. It is said that the gold skull was of a holy person, a saint perhaps.
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