Vienna FLAK - (Stiftskaserne/Esterhazy Complex) Traditional Cache
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Vienna FLAK - (Stiftskaserne/Esterhazy Complex)
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Stiftskaserne
(These towers are examples of the 3nd Generation of FLAK Tower
design)
The G-Tower is located within a military base of the Austrian
Army
(Naturally, it is not publically accessible... but the
coordinates are given so you can try to spot it from a
distance...)
The L-Tower (in Esterhazypark) is used as an aquarium (the "Haus
des Meeres") and has a climbing wall on the outside.
TRIVIA: A less obvious remnant of the war which remains to this
day, can be found at the base of the L tower. It is a former
air-raid shelter that now contains the Museum of Medieval Legal
History and the History of Torture (Museum für Mittelalterliche
Rechtsgeschichte: Die Geschichte der Folter).
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) - (Photo credit:
Beutelteufelweibchen)
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 lets you rediscover these huge
stuctures within the living city...
From the Cache, only the L Tower (Known to the locals as "Haus des
Meeres") can be seen, which has been converted into an aquarium,
with a climbing wall, and huge glass windows in the side...
Since this is a highly public area, please use Ninja-like stealth
so that the cache does not get muggle-napped!
Cache container is a 35mm Film canister - please bring your own
pen...
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)