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The chapel was built in the years 1776–1804 by priest Wacław Tomaszek (Czech Václav Tomášek), of Czech origin, the parish priest in Czermna. One day in 1776, priest Tomaszek noticed human skulls and bones in the embankment near the belfry near the church. He called the undertaker J. Langer and church J. Schmidt. Together, they began to scoop out the shallow debris below. They did not expect to encounter such a large number of human bones. These were the bones of victims of wars in Kłodzko, probably from the Thirty Years 'War, Prussian-Austrian Wars and the epidemics of cholera spreading in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Father Tomaszek decided to bring out all the remains. He ordered the gravedigger and the church cleanse, whiten bones with skulls and gather in the chapel. This fact and the shock experienced while visiting the catacombs in Rome in 1775 gave rise to the idea of ​​building an ossuary chapel. The construction... wyświetl cały opis

The chapel was built in the years 1776–1804 by priest Wacław Tomaszek (Czech Václav Tomášek), of Czech origin, the parish priest in Czermna. One day in 1776, priest Tomaszek noticed human skulls and bones in the embankment near the belfry near the church. He called the undertaker J. Langer and church J. Schmidt. Together, they began to scoop out the shallow debris below. They did not expect to encounter such a large number of human bones. These were the bones of victims of wars in Kłodzko, probably from the Thirty Years 'War, Prussian-Austrian Wars and the epidemics of cholera spreading in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). Father Tomaszek decided to bring out all the remains. He ordered the gravedigger and the church cleanse, whiten bones with skulls and gather in the chapel. This fact and the shock experienced while visiting the catacombs in Rome in 1775 gave rise to the idea of ​​building an ossuary chapel. The construction of the chapel supported by Leopold von Leslie began in 1776. After building the chapel, Fr. Tomaszek and the gravedigger Langer collected human remains in the area of ​​Kudowa, Duszniki and Polanica for nearly 20 years and collected them. Work on the interior of the chapel lasted until 1804. Taken over by the meeting with the transience of the world and death, Fr. Tomaszek and the gravedigger Langer decided that 20 years after their death their remains would also rest in this place. Ks. Tomaszek died in 1804. A small baroque stone chapel founded on a square, was situated between the church of St. Bartholomew and the free-standing bell tower. The walls and vaulting of the interior of the chapel are covered by approx. tightly arranged human skulls and bones, victims of wars and epidemics of infectious diseases. A further 20-30 thousand the remains lie in a crypt under the chapel. On the main wall there is a small modest altar with a baroque crucifix, on which lie more interesting specimens of skulls. Among the tibia and skulls arranged in layers next to the walls of the chapel are two wooden sculptures of angels, one with the trumpet and Latin inscription "Arise from the dead", the other with the scales and the Latin inscription "Go to court". In front of the entrance there is a monument with a trilingual inscription in German, Czech and Polish: "Victims of wars to commemorate, and living to caution 1914".

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