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Galgenberg Bad Schandau

Gallows Hill Bad Schandau

by Grimpel     Germany > Sachsen > Sächsische Schweiz

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N 50° 55.329' E 014° 08.737' (WGS84)

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Status: Archived
 Hidden on: 08 August 2007
 Listed since: 27 July 2007
 Last update: 23 April 2013
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC3CCC

25 Found
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5 Notes
12 Watchers
1 Ignorers
923 Page visits
4 Log pictures
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Hundreds of hills and mountains where in former times public executions of villains took place are still called "Galgenberg" (Gallows Hill) in German-speaking countries. [...] These places were situated in the surroundings of a town with its own jurisdiction, [...] visible for kilometres and most commonly close to the border of jurisdiction, so that everybody could get an idea about the deterrent punishment of the county while entering the sovereign territory of the town or barony. [...] Executed people often continued dangling visibly on the publicly accessible gallows hill for a long time and were abandoned to putrefaction advanced by dogs, ravens and weather. Dropped corpses often were buried hastily below or around the gibbet on gallows hill. [...] Nowadays, these flat summits mostly are covered with forests. Remnants of the gallows can hardly be found.
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The cache is situated along the upper part of the hillside interspersed by some vertical rockfalls up to several metres deep. So please remember to wear sturdy shoes and pay attention to the terrain! Once you have reached the summit, at clear weather you can also appreciate the panoramic view at the elevation called Rathmannsdorfer Höhe (at N 50° 55.426' E 14° 08.840').

  • Those who don't want to beat their way to the cache on their own hook will find a comfortable secret path from the panoramic view to the nearest cache search area in the encrypted clue: The coefficient of difficulty of the terrain therefore is reduced to approx. 1,5.
  • People who have time and leisure can easily combine the cache search with a short ramble starting and ending at Bad Schandau, passing by the panoramic view mentioned above.

Hint for families: If you combine the „short ramble" with the „secret path" in the coded advice, you can reach the cache also with a pram or pushchair. Just abandon the baby carriage on the last metres and carry infants in your arms or take them by the hand.

Additional hint   Decrypt

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This geocache is probably placed within the following protected areas (Info): FFH-Gebiet Lachsbach- und Sebnitztal (Info), Landschaftsschutzgebiet Sächsische Schweiz (Info)

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Log entries for Galgenberg Bad Schandau    Found 25x Not found 0x Note 5x

Found 02 December 2012 34u found the geocache

Cache gefunden. Leider gibt es keine Dose mehr, sodass der Inhalt verstreut am Fundort lag (auch ein wenig nass). Das ursprüngliche Versteck, siehe Spoilerbild existiert nicht mehr. Ansonsten schöner Cache.

Found 15 September 2011 Rapidor1 found the geocache

Hallo, auf einer kleinen Wanderung diese tolle Kiste 15 Uhr 45 gut gefunden. Danke für´s Herlocken!

Gruß Rapidor1 Cool

Out:Ernie-Set  In:Rettungsdecke+Schlüsselband

Found 18 October 2010 Trudi 74 found the geocache

 Mega anstrengend! Aber hat sich gelohnt! Gruß in die  sächsische Schweiz war ein schöner Urlaub, danke für den Cache!

Found Recommended 05 October 2010 Kaktus97 found the geocache

super schöner Cach... auf einer schönen Urlaubswanderung gesucht und gefunden

  großes Dankeschön

Found Recommended 03 October 2010 delete_139413 found the geocache

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last modified on 05 January 2020