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Jäger der Nacht am Tempel des Lichts

by Kolkhard     Germany > Saarland > Stadtverband Saarbrücken

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N 49° 13.347' E 007° 00.886' (WGS84)

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 Size: micro
Status: Archived
 Time required: 0:30 h   Route: 0.5 km
 Hidden on: 29 April 2009
 Listed since: 19 April 2009
 Last update: 26 November 2017
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC7FA4
Also listed at: geocaching.com 

9 Found
0 Not found
12 Notes
3 Maintenance logs
2 Watchers
0 Ignorers
325 Page visits
1 Log picture
Geokrety history
1 Recommendations

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Simple Cache for viewing industries, arts and nature. Nightcache, 500m, wheelchair accessible.

Hunters of the night at the temple of light

Certainly you can visit this cache at daylight, but though you would see the temple you won't see the light nor the hunters of the night. Thic would be a shame.
For here you can watch them hunting not as usually at dawn but exceptionally at dark night, these our little friends, that prevent us from visiting many an interesting cache during winter time.

The Temple Of Light was conceptualize by the artist Edward Allington (*1951).

The company GDF SUEZ running the combined heat and power plant (they call the artwork Falling Temple) describe Allington's creation like this:
When the artist Edward Allington began to think about the über die originalities of public area he became aware: Whart were churches in former days are now power plants. They act as symbols for our period. On the one hand they are mundane, on the other hand they are like temples. Therefore the artist has placed on the roof of the cooling building a 6 x 13 meter sized falling temple. großen, fallenden Tempel platziert. Die building sculpture „Falling Temple“, from where a ray of light shines direct into the Saar, astablishes a relationship between industial buildin to industrial river. This position acts as a display of a hood ornament.

This ray of light catches the moths and these serve as a feast for the Hunters of the Night. However only up to one o'clock, then the light is switched off.

You should consider the following:
(1) You should better not wander alone in the park at night.
(2) This place is highly accessible for wheelchair users. Unfourtunally the cache is placed in a height that is difficult to reach for wheelchair users
(3) You will need a multi slip-joint gripping pliers, better a wrench (22mm). Sometimes it's difficult to open the cache box, then you might also need a hammer. (I am unsure about the translations, see pictures!)
(4) For those who can't find the cache there is a hint placed at (N 49° 13.389 E 007° 00.785) ...
(5) ... and for those who are completely off the track there is a spoiler picture here (N 49° 13.281 E 007° 00.966).(6) NEW! Now INCLUDING the wrench. You will find it exacltly at kilometer 90.1. Woe to the one who let it slip into the water. !!!It's lost already!!!

The combined heat and power plant Römerbrücke is well-known for its elaborated "Kunst am Bau" (I don't know if there is something comparable in other countries) and is favored by geocachers. The other artworks are:
Schneemann (snowman) by Peter Fischli (*1952) and David Weiss (*1946)
(Der Schneemann by die Rupp's)
Häuserlandschaft (houses landscape) by Thomas Schütte (*1954)
Wassermühle /water mill) by Katharina Fritsch (*1956)
(Die Mühle by knoe91)

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Jäger der Nacht
Jäger der Nacht
Dieses Werkzeug geht nur schlecht bis gar nicht ...
Dieses Werkzeug geht nur schlecht bis gar nicht ...
... das ist besser (22mm!)
... das ist besser (22mm!)
... manchmal auch dieses.
... manchmal auch dieses.

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Log entries for Jäger der Nacht am Tempel des Lichts    Found 9x Not found 0x Note 12x Maintenance 3x

OC-Team Archived 26 November 2017 mic@ has archived the cache

Das letzte Funddatum liegt lange zurück und die Logs auf geocaching.com (GC567H8) lassen darauf schließen, das der Cache nicht mehr zu finden ist. Aus diesem Grunde archiviere ich ihn auch hier. Sollten sich später neue Aspekte ergeben, so kann dieses Listing durch den Owner selbständig über ein "kann gesucht werden"-Log reaktiviert werden.

mic@ (OC-Support)

Found 25 July 2014, 00:33 Saba1980 found the geocache

heute beim 2. Versuch gut gefunden

Available 29 May 2014 Kolkhard has maintained the cache

Neueröffnung!

Der Cachebehälter wurde wasserfest gemacht und so kann es endlich hier weitergehen. Ihr braucht auch kein Werkzeug mehr mitbringen, es ist in der Nähe versteckt.

Viel Spaß beim Beobachten der Jäger der Nacht.

OC-Team Archived 08 June 2013, 18:40 Opencaching.de has archived the cache

Dieser Cache ist seit mehr als einem Jahr „momentan nicht verfügbar“; daher wird er automatisch archiviert. Er kann vom Besitzer jederzeit instand gesetzt und reaktiviert werden.

Note 11 August 2011 Kolkhard wrote a note

WEgen Wartungsarbeiten zur Zeit geschlossen. Logbuch muss erneuert und Cachebehälter überarbeitet werden.