GC1AGPV Vienna FLAK - (Arenberg Complex) (Traditional Cache) in Wien, Austria created by Plotor

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GC1AGPV ▼

A cache by Plotor Message this owner

Hidden : 4/24/2008

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Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Arenberg Park V4.0 - New Container and hide 21.9.2008

(These towers are examples of the 2nd Generation of FLAK Tower design)

The G-Tower is used as a storehouse for art.
The L-Tower remains empty.

TRIVIA: stable internal temperatures of the larger FLAK have facilitated reuse of part of the tower. Since 1995, as the MAK Depot of Contemporary Art, an archival depository of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts. MAK director Peter Noever, with architects Sepp Müller and Michael Embacher, developed an ambitious plan to reuse all 42,300 interior square feet of what Noever calls this "windowless monolithic building". To date this well documented plan goes unfortunately unrealised...

Flak towers (German: Flaktürme) were large anti-aircraft gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to prevent overflights of key areas in certain cities in World War II.

They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence. With concrete walls up to 3.5 metres thick, these towers were considered to be invulnerable to attack with the usual ordnance carried by Allied bombers of the time-period. Aircraft generally appeared to have avoided the flak towers.

Each Flak tower complex consisted of:
A G-Tower (Gun Tower)

and an L-Tower (Fire Control Tower)

Six of the most intact examples remaining in the world, are standing in Vienna, huge remnants of the Second World War, that are often overlooked, or unseen by the people living there...

The Vienna FLAK series of Caches let you rediscover these huge stuctures within the living city...

Standing at the cache location, Only the L tower is visible.

The cache container is metallic, watertight... and screws open...

Please make sure to close it correctly and return it exactly as found!!!

PLEASE PLEASE use Ninja-like stealth... as the cache containers on this location have been muggled MANY MANY times in the past...!
The cache contains only a log so you will have to bring your own pen...

LOGS POSTED WITH OBVIOUS SPOILER PICTURES WILL BE DELETED. THIS IS A 1 STAR DIFFICULTY ALREADY. DON'T RUIN IT FOR PEOPLE WHO ENJOY THE SEARCH, AND ARE NOT JUST STATISTIC JUNKIES

[EDIT: 27-12-2009 Updated trivia] [EDIT: 28-11-2010 Updated listing]

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[E/D] Uhaqrireobg

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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Vienna FLAK - (Arenberg Complex) Traditional Cache

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