Ruined chapel at Ódörögd Traditional Cache
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Close to Ódörögd there is a ruined temple in the forest. Its colorful look shows typical towered brick temple from the XIII. century. The ruin can be found in the middle of a clearing in a nice grove staying several hundred meters from Ódörögd. The cache is a 20x7cm plastic kitchen box that is located ~40 meters the north from the ruin. It's on a V-shaped acacia tree. This is not an ordinary type of cache. Please do not write about the hideout and do not post a photo about it.
It is built from brick with a hexagonal three-storied steeple that protrudes on the eastern pediment. The steeple raises the type illustrative of the surroundings of Sopron from the Roman era. The semicircular doorway with orders of arches opens in the axis of the fronting. This is also illustrative of the temples built in Zala, Vas and the plain in Northwestern Hungary in the XIII. century. Under the equal width nave that was built of octagonal closing white dolomite, and the sanctuary built with buttress, there is a wagon-roofed cellar with disarranged crypts in its stone-wall. The Hungarian archeological specialized literature speaks shortly about the place: in the vicinity of Halápi-hill it renders account of finds from Bronze- and Iron Age. It also talks about potsherds of the Middle Ages found along the Viszlói-creek. Only the location is known of Tótdörögd that was established in the Arpadian age and was deserted in the Turkish era. Its temple that was built in honour of the Holy Saviour is mentioned by a deed from 1238. About Zala county – that the larger part of the Upper Balaton belonged to until 1950 – there were not written the Borovszky-kind monograph that is mastery in the regional history up to the present. Without having facts and figures of the past of the ruin the only sureness tenable thing is that this picturesque building is not from the Middle Ages! While its axis is oriented from east to west the sanctuary faces to west and this fact precludes by itself the Middle Ages origination. Its brick architecture, the brickset parts tell tales about the romantic, historic style of the XIX. century. The cache is a 20x7 cm rectangular kitchen box. We ask everyone to disguise carefully and accurately. We wish everyone a good hiking and geocaching: sziooka, @miL and BuBu, keeper of our caches :)
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