Jihlava Catacombs

The city of Jihlava was founded by German colonists in the thirteenth century in the Middle Ages. The city has its own secrets and mysteries, the source of which are the Jiglav catacombs.

One version claims that they arose during the development of silver mines by German colonists, the other - that they were dug up by the inhabitants of the city to hide there in fires and during wars. Enemies who entered Jihlava found the depopulated city, as all the inhabitants took refuge in the dungeon city.

The network of underground corridors with an area of more than 5 hectares stretches for 25 km long and not 12-12 m deep. On the first of the three floors of the catacombs were stored supplies of water and food, which allowed people to hide underground for a very long time and come to the surface at night, attacking enemies by surprise.

During the construction of the catacombs, some of the miners died under the collapses, and who knows how many of them were buried alive under Jihlava. . In the middle of the last century, the catacombs collapsed so much that some city streets began to collapse, when part of the walls were fortified with concrete.

Archaeologists conduct research in the catacombs, and sometimes they have to deal with mysterious and inexplicable phenomena. During one of the expeditions, the sounds of the organ spread through the corridors. According to legend, an overly virtuoso young organist was walled up alive in the dungeon by the Inquisition, allegedly selling his soul for talent. Organ music is now playing underground on the day of his execution.

Another mystery faced archaeologists at a depth of eleven meters in a remote corridor of the catacombs, finding a glowing staircase emitting red-orange light. In addition to the stairs, a whole corridor was found, the walls of which glowed with a luminescent greenish light, so bright that you can read with it. At the same time, theories began to multiply, explaining the phenomenon of glow in different ways, but from what the walls of the catacombs and the stairs glow, from where organ music sounds at a depth of ten meters, and in general, who and why built the catacombs in Jihlava, until it was possible to establish.