At the point when ARP SCHNITGER, A Prestigious organ creator working in Germany in the late seventeenth hundred years, was doled out a part of the cellar tomb of St. Peter’s House of prayer in Bremen to deal with, he didn’t anticipate tracking down the preserved remaining parts of not one yet eight occupants. from the German city.

The grave is situated underneath the nave of the house of God and was initially used to store lead that was utilized for remodels to the rooftop and different designs, giving the chamber its name: Bleikeller. Lead or dry air from the sepulcher or a mix of variables is accepted to have caused the regular preservation of the bodies, some of which are trusted to go back close to 400 years.

The mummies have piqued the interest of both locals and tourists ever since they were discovered. The story of a tourist looking for them is told in an article published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1859.

The mummies were buried in coffins with glass tops; today, a separate entrance in the church complex leads to them. They each have a unique tale to tell: the body of a mortally injured man and has his mouth open as though shouting; a Swedish general and his colleague; an English countess who is sometimes referred to as Lady Stanhope; a killed understudy; a resident of Bremen named Konrad Ehlers; and Georg Bernhard von Engelbrechten, the cathedral’s last Swedish administrator, and his wife.