!!!Karner

Ossuary, two-storeyed, mostly round or polygonal chapel in a cemetery; 
the lower part was used an ossuary, the upper part was a place of 
devotion and worship. These charnel-houses were common all over Europe 
but most of them were built in 13%%sup th/%  and 14%%sup th/%  
centuries in southern Germany and in Austria (in Lower Austria and 
Carinthia ). Richly decorated ossuaries (mainly portal decorations and 
frescoes) are in Moedling, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Pulkau, Hainburg, 
Tulln, Friedersbach, Mistelbach (all in Lower Austria), Villach, 
Friesach, Maria Saal (Carinthia), Hartberg, St. Lambrecht 
(Styria.) and Mauthausen (Upper Austria).

!Literature
W. Westerhoff, Karner in Oesterreich und Suedtirol, 1989.


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