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Bleikeller

TIME : 2016/2/18 19:33:40

Located inside Dom St Petri but accessed via a separate entrance south of the main door, the Lead Cellar was formerly the cathedral’s cellar and today is a crypt in which bodies have mummified in the incredibly dry air. You can see eight preserved bodies in open coffins here, including a Swedish countess, a soldier with his mouth opened in a silent scream and a student who died in a duel in 1705. It's more than a little creepy.