Gothic crypt under the altar in the Lord's Chapel at Trenčín CastleTrenčín Museum in Trenčín
Posted on 09/26/2024 8:30:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Slovak Spectator reports that archaeologists are excavating a crypt at Trenčín Castle, which is located in western Slovakia. Historic records suggest that there may be an entrance to a second chamber in the northern wall of the crypt located beneath the altar at Lord's Chapel. "We have successfully revealed the original staircase leading into the crypt, and have cleared about half the structure," said archaeologist Juraj Malec. The chapel and the crypt were built by Barbara of Celje, the Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, who remodeled the medieval castle in the fifteenth century. The chapel was remodeled twice again before it was damaged in a fire in 1790. Malec explained that the crypt is thought to have been backfilled in the 1980s. "Previous excavators damaged the vault in two locations and discarded waste inside," he explained. The area was then used as a guard dog kennel and as a storage facility, he added.
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Gothic crypt under the altar in the Lord's Chapel at Trenčín CastleTrenčín Museum in Trenčín
conjures up memories of “takes from the crypt”. watch out for the bats. especially at night.
:^D
Posted excerpts states workers threw everything away.
The Soviets and communists in power at the time had very little regard for anything of historical importance and certainly saw no need for archaeologists. Destruction was common, as was repurposing; all done intentionally, IMO, to erase the culture. I walked through the Castle Hluboka in the Czech Republic, where they had housed cows inside the castle, on top of an extraordinary, centuries-old parquet floor consisting of 14 different types of wood farmed from off the property. It was amazing that any of that floor had survived.
“During the communist regime, there was little respect for sacred sites.”
Probably one of the reasons that the Slovaks were so anxious to break away after the Communists lost power.
Understood.
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