Plague mound

Plague epidemics did not escape Teplice either. One of the biggest epidemics took place in the years 1581 – 1583. In 1600, the plague raged in the settlement of Světice /today's part of Bystřany/, where only two of the 14 inhabitants of the time survived. They then buried the dead in the so-called "Plague Cemetery". It was located on a high hill between Světice and Pytlíkov. The hill was later called Morový pahorek. The cemetery fell in…