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Galgenberg

by Stegi     Austria > Niederösterreich > Waldviertel

Attention! This Geocache is "Archived"! There is no physical container at the specified (or to be determined) coordinates. In the interest of the place it should not be necessarily to search!

N 48° 50.725' E 015° 30.587' (WGS84)

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 Size: micro
Status: Archived
 Time required: 0:45 h   Route: 1.5 km
 Hidden on: 07 April 2006
 Listed since: 29 August 2006
 Last update: 22 June 2011
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC242B
Also listed at: geocaching.com 

5 Found
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Short but steep hike to the ruin of the gallows of Raabs a. d. Thaya. There's a parking lot at N48°50,777 E015°30,330

"Gallows Hill"
In 1818 there was the last execution of an arsonist, from which fault one man died. This hill once was not wooded and the gallows from far away visibly. Also from the castle in Raabs the gallow was direct visibly. From this castle the duke gave the hangman the sign for the execution.
The family of the convict have to say goodnye at the "Urlauber Marterl" (Villensteig Nr.9).
The cache is a filmcanister and contains a logbook and a pencil. Please don't remove these things.

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Log entries for Galgenberg    Found 5x Not found 0x Note 0x

Found 20 May 2007 theplank found the geocache

Found 10 December 2006 Team Yps found the geocache

Cache an einem kalten Regentag gehoben.Sehr düstere Stimmung an diesen Ort. Durch gute Ortskenntnis fast ein Drive-In Cache.
Danke Stegi für diesen tollen Cache.
Team Yps

Found 15 August 2006 Cocktailmixer found the geocache

Found 22 April 2006 Da.Verna&Di.Andre found the geocache

16:50
Hinweg von den Parkplatzkoordinaten, retour weniger steil!
Dazwischen Pick-Gatsch und Holzfäller! ...Timbeeer...!
TFTC
TNLN

Found 10 April 2006 M.W. found the geocache

Zwar die Zufahrt zu den Parkoordinaten verpasst, aber gerade dadurch fand ich zufällig einen nur mäßig steilen, angenehmen und beschilderten Weg zum Cache.
Ein heute besonders mysthisch anmutender Platz, der gehängte Brandstifter findet keine Ruhe...

Vielen Dank an stegi W/M.W.