Otýlie Vranská also lies in the cemetery of fools – eXtra.cz
MYSTERIOUS PLACES
Eighty people a year. As many former psychiatric patients were buried in the Bohnice cemetery in the first half of the twentieth century. A remote corner in Bohnice is also one of the scariest places in Prague and many urban legends are spreading about it. Even if you don’t come across any wandering duchy here and it is no longer buried in the cemetery, this is a great tip for a walk and a visit to a place with special energy.
When you approach the Bohnice cemetery on a broken path through a gardening colony, there is no indication that the place that rises from the dense forest at its end is one of the the most mysterious places of the capital. When the cemetery was established, the Bohnice Hospital was one of the most modern psychiatric facilities in Europe. At that time, they were called institutions for the sick. The cemetery is not large, but it is quite different from the ones we know.
According to sources, 11-year-old František Janovský, who suffered from hydrocephalus and died as a result of a tuberculosis infection, was the first to be buried here directly from the Bohnická Hospital. The cemetery has about two and a half hectares, which also included a morgue and a chapel. Nand the cemetery was buried from 1909 until 1951, when the clergy, which was in charge of burying patients, ceased to exist in the hospital. But not only patients but also staff and nurses from the hospital are here for eternal rest.
Thousands of buried people
In 1963, the Bohnice hospital handed over the cemetery, which had not been used for twelve years, to the state, but the Funeral Service of the Capital City of Prague did not use it, and the cemetery gradually fell into disrepair to its current state. There is a continuous carpet of ivy all over the ground, some parts of the cemetery are completely overgrown and the shape of the vegetation only suggests that there were originally graves under it. You would look for tombstones here almost in vain. Many of them were not originally on the graves and only a few have survived to this day. In total, about 4,200 people are buried here.
But the cemetery also has its “famous” deceased. “The remains of the murdered Otelia Vranska, whose dismembered body was sent by the killer in suitcases by a wreck around the republic, should be buried here.. There is also a Bosnian Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip, a man who is basically the beginning of the First World Warwhen he killed the successor to the throne, Francis Ferdinand d’Este, and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo. Margaret Thatcher also visited the site in the 1990s. the British Prime Minister, who assisted in the exhumation of the remains of her husband’s relatives.
The cemetery is open and more or less open to the public. You can visit places with graves, ruins of the chapel and morgue. This is a great tip for a trip to nature in Prague with a slight taste of mystery.
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