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Das RAF-Erddepot

by Badener     Germany > Hessen > Offenbach am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt

N 50° 03.948' E 008° 45.848' (WGS84)

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 Hidden on: 09 January 2008
 Listed since: 09 January 2008
 Last update: 13 June 2011
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC4E0A
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The RAF earth depot

 

On October 26th 1982  mushroom gatheres made an explosive discovery near Heusenstamm. Only swiftly covered with earth and leaves thy find an earth depot of the „Roten Armee Fraktion” (RAF).

 

In tow buried plastic containers several weapons (among those, ones that where used in attacks), ammunition, explosives money from a bank robbery, fake Ids and something like an archive about  planned and executed attacks by the RAF. The depot also contained a number of Polariod pictures of the abducted Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the original documents of his kidnappers. From the markings the police could recover the  RAF intern code word “Spindy” for Hanns-Martin Schleyer.

 

Among the reocevered items  crypted location plans to other earth depots where found. Within 2 days the encryption was broken and 10 more depots within Germany between Hamburg and Heidelberg  where discovered. Immediately  all depots where heavily observed.

 

Only 3 weeks later the wait turned into a success. On November 11th 1982 it lead to the seizure of  3 most-wanted members of the RAF. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, head of the RAF and Adeheid Schulz, girlfriend of Christian Klar where arrested at the main depot in Heusenstamm. Only 5 days later, on November 16th 1982 Christian Klar was arrested at the depot “Daphne” near Hamburg. All three of the where accused to be involved in the Schleyer-kidnapping and therefore where sought after  by warrants of arrest.

 


How do you find it?
Park your car at: N 50°03.984 E 008°45.885. At a switch-box east of you, you will find the address of the „Fernmeldemeisterei” .
The street address contains two numbers. Only use the last 2 digits. Now add the “to-digits” to the N coordinate and add the “from-digits” from he E coordinate of the following coordinates: : N 50° 03.904 E 008° 45.920 (N 904 + TO; E 920 + FROM)
This will take you into the woods where the cache is hidden under a “dinosaur”.
But be careful, you still may find left over traces by the terrorists or the police.

Additional hint   Decrypt

Gur pnpur vf uvqqra haqre na byq gerr ebbg gung ybbxf yvxr n qvabfnhe.

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

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Log entries for Das RAF-Erddepot    Found 75x Not found 2x Note 1x

Found The geocache is in good or acceptable condition. 24 March 2025, 11:11 RJHOF found the geocache

Found 04 February 2025, 10:38 Varkung found the geocache

danke!

Found 27 March 2024, 13:13 HaPuWaBä found the geocache

Da kommen gewissermaßen Jugenderinnerungen auf. Die RAF war mit ihren Anschlägen ja eine ganze Weile lang sehr präsent in den Medien und im Bewusstsein der Bevölkerung.
Der Telefonnummernaufkleber am Schaltkasten ist fast ebenso Geschichte, aber die unleserlichen Daten wurden ja mit Stift vermerkt. Dadurch war es ein leichter Fund.
DfdC #195 13:08

Found 09 March 2023 Philcaro found the geocache

Heute war ich auf der Durchreise und habe mir mal diesen Oldie vorgenommen.

Zuerst dachte ich, es geht hinter den Zaun ganz woanders hin. Da ist nämlich sogar ein Zaunsfeld demoliert. Die Parkkordinaten liegen jedenfalls locker 40 Meter im Off.

Nachdem ich dies ignorierte, ging es zügig zur offensichtlichen Stage 1.

Die Finalkoordinaten konnten nur näherungsweise ermittelt werden, da der zweite Teil des Hinweises nicht mehr lesbar ist. Aber zum Glück war was Final gut zu finden.

Vielen Dank sagen Philcaro

Found 12 May 2022, 10:20 filser1 found the geocache

Dieser Denkwürdige Ort, der in der deutschen Geschichte seine Spuren hinterlassen hat, reizte mich. So plante ich mit TEMBO! einen Besuch ein. Am Schaltkasten konnte ich keine Werte erkennen. Glücklicherweise lagen entsprechende Informationen vor und der Cache konnte geborgen werden.

T4TC Filser1