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Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Quick traditional cache at Austria's second-largest University

by aj-gps Austria > Steiermark > Graz

N 47° 04.650' E 015° 27.050' (WGS84)
Convert coordinates Size: micro Status: Available Hidden on: 06 December 2007 Listed since: 09 December 2007 Last update: 10 November 2019 Listing: https://opencaching.de/OC4B17 Also listed at: geocaching.com	51 Found 1 Not found 0 Notes 3 Maintenance logs 3 Watchers 0 Ignorers 566 Page visits 1 Log picture Geokrety history

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Some background
The University of Graz "Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz" (Latin: "Carola-Franciscea") is both the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria.
It was founded in 1585 by Archduke Karl II of Inner Austria with a faculty of philosophy and a faculty of theology. In 1778 the faculty of law was founded. 1782 the university was transformed into a Lycée and a medical-chirurgical course of study was established. 1827 it was re-opened as Karl-Franzens-University by emperor Franz I. 1863 the faculty of medicine was established and full university status reached. 1895 the main building of today's campus area was opened. 1999 the number of students reached an all-time high of 32.000 people. 2004 the faculty of medicine became an autonomous university.
Today the university houses 6 faculties, 73 scientific institutes and educates about 22.000 students. Every year 2.400 students graduate, including 200 doctoral degrees. It offers 70 studies with about 9.000 courses and has 1700 full-time employees.
On top of the main building you'll find 8 monuments: Aristoteles, Augustinus, Grotius, Leibniz, Newton, Kant, da Vinci and Hippokrates.
A well-known professor at the university was Erwin Schrödinger (Theoretical Physics, 1936-1938), whom you might know from the "Schrödinger's cat" imaginary experiment.
More information can be found on the Universities website. There is even a movie available on YouTube.

Cache
The cache is a micro. It used to be a small but that one disappeared together with the hideout when the emergency stairs of the nearby building were torn down. Good luck.

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13 April 2025, 14:41 packolla found the geocache

Tftc

28 May 2023, 18:31 TeamMB found the geocache

Bei einem Stadtspaziergang fix entdeckt.
Nett gmacht! Danke fürs Schachterl! :)

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17 April 2022, 16:02 HighDraw found the geocache

Ein spontaner Spaziergang mit Saphiraa7, mit dem Hinweis ein schneller Fund. Der Cache wirkt gut gepflegt, TFTC

The geocache is in good or acceptable condition. 22 February 2022 Zoidberg73 found the geocache

Heute an diesem besonderen Tag konnten wir diesen Cache schnell finden und loggen. Die Dose lag am Boden, da dessen Befestigungsmechanismus gebrochen war. Wir haben ihn nach dem Loggen wieder dem Hinweis entsprechend versteckt...
TFTC

(Nachtrag von GC)

24 March 2021, 18:41 extremetuxracer found the geocache

Gut findbar, v.a. mit dem Hinweis

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