Why the people of Horkheim are also called "roof riders"
by lovertux Germany > Baden-Württemberg > Heilbronn, Stadtkreis
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In bad times in Horkheim lived a farmer, who could not pay his taxes. When he heard that he should be arrested because of this he searched for a place to hide. But he did not found a save spot. Eventually he had the right idea:
In the dark he climbed with the help of a ladder onto the roof of the house and hid behind the chimney. On the other day when he ought to get arrested he was nowhere to find. The police and the fire brigade had to search a long time until they finally spotted him. But what to do now?
Eventually someone had the idea to sputter him with the hose. The fire brigade sputtered as much as they could. However the farmer from Horkheim »rode« skillfully to and from on the roof in order to avoid the jet of water. But in the long run it did not help. Completely drenched the »roof rider« had to give up and climb down from the roof. Since then the people from Horkheim are called »roof riders«, although the bad times for the farmers of Horkheim are long over.
Source: "Wir wohnen in Heilbronn - Kinder lernen ihre Stadt kennen" Published by the city administration of Heilbronn 1986, page 31. Translated by lovertux
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08 May 2016 lovertux has archived the cache
11 March 2011 kakao-melker found the geocache
Auf Horkheimer- Schatzrunde abends gut gefunden und geloggt. Danke f.d. cache - kakao- melker
07 July 2010 BoersenbaerBen found the geocache
Vielen Dank für die Erläuterung des Spitznamens der Horkheimer. Der Cache war gut zu finden. NTNL. TFTC.
11 September 2008 DO3SRK found the geocache
04 September 2008 Indy67 found the geocache
Microcache bei einer Horkheimer-Cache-Runde mitgenommen.
Läßt sich trotz Muggel gut loggen.
TFTC, Indy67