Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers in Olomouc - Characteristics

Characteristics

The chapel is 11 metres high, topped with a dome. A two-branch staircase leads to the chapel entrance behind 12 Doric columns standing in three rows. An epigraph on the chapel reads: VĚRNOST ZA VĚRNOST – LJUBAV ZA LJUBAV (the first part is in the Czech language and means loyalty for loyalty, the second part is in the Serbo-Croatian language and means love for love). The building stands on an artificial mound, inside of which is the ossuary. The entrance to the ossuary is a portal with a sandstone relief of a mourning woman and national emblems of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. It contains the remains of more than 1,100 Yugoslav soldiers who died in Olomouc military hospitals.

• Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers in Olomouc

• Damaged sandstone relief above the portal to the ossuary

• Interior of the chapel with remains of frescoes