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Wenn alle Brünnlein fließen Nr 2 - Der Kolonialbrunnen

by oelfenbaerchen     Germany > Baden-Württemberg > Heidelberg, Stadtkreis

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N 49° 23.422' E 008° 42.233' (WGS84)

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 Size: micro
Status: Archived
 Time required: 0:10 h 
 Hidden on: 06 May 2009
 Listed since: 06 May 2009
 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC81AB
Also listed at: geocaching.com 

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We call this second well of our collection the "Colonial Fountain". We do not know whether this is its real name, but We are sure that some of our loggers will tell us quite quickly.

Next to the well there is a monument with the inscription "in rememberance of the 40 jears of German colonial history".

This is a bit surprising when you recall two hallmarks of German history: 1) The German colonial history started at April 24th in 1884, when Chancellor Bismarck granted the protection of the Deutsches Reich to the Lüderitz-Bucht in the later Namibia.2) Some 35 years later on June 26th 1919 as part of the treaty of Versailles, Germany had to surrender all its colonies to the winners of the World War.

Disregarding these small details, for some Germans the Colonial History did not end by that day. So the "Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft" ("German Colonial Society") errected this monument of rememberance on April 24th in 1924.

In fact the society did exsisted much longer. And a little smile arises, when reading the name of its vicepresisent 1931-1933, which was Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

 

By the way: You can read all these facts (in German) at http://www.namibiana.de/Photos/htm/beitraege/schmiedel_ein_kolonialdenkmal.pdf

 

The well is not very reliable and spends only little water. The water does not taste very well, but it's good enough for cleaning dishes.

It is located in a dangerous U-turn. There is a playground and grilling place for families protected by a metal fence next to the  well.

You can park your car 60m away at N 49° 23.394' E 8° 42.297' and walk under "danger of life Wink" along the street to N 49° 23.422' E 8° 42.233'. It is a micro, so please bring a pen.

 


This series of wells has a bonus cache which you can only find when you answer one question for each of the other six wells. For getting the co-ordinates, you have to combine the answers properly.

 

For the bonus cache ( https://www.opencaching.de/viewcache.php?wp=OC829F ) you need to know:
How many leaves can be counted at the holder of the fountain pipe? X2=ef

 

 

 

Additional hint   Decrypt

Qb abg gel gb svaq gur pnpur jvgu jrg svatref.

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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This geocache is probably placed within the following protected areas (Info): Landschaftsschutzgebiet Bergstraße - Mitte (Info), Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald (Info)

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Found 14 April 2017 Die_GEOroellheimers found the geocache

Zum Abschluss des heutigen Tages haben wir auf dem Heimweg noch einige Caches eingesammelt. Dieser hier war auch dabei. ... sollte allerdings mal gewartet werden, das Logbuch bekommt Haare...

Trotzdem vielen Dank für den Cache! [:D]

Die GEOroellheimers

Fund: 546

Found 26 March 2017 b_smurf found the geocache

Schön isser nicht mehr. Aber vorhanden. Tftc!

Found 19 August 2016 Katja104 found the geocache

Nach dem Spielplatz auch noch den Brunnen und den Cache besucht. DFDC

Archived 09 July 2016 oelfenbaerchen has archived the cache

Liebe Leute, Zeit für etwas neues hier an diesem Ort bei Opencaching

Found The geocache needs maintenance. 16 April 2016 tweeedy found the geocache

Bei wenig Verkehr gut gefunden. Das Logbuch ist gut feucht! Wasser war in der Dose! Vllt sollte man mal danach schauen!