Friedensberg School Museum Traditional Cache

The cache is hidden near to the cemetary attached to the school building, and is accessed on a good all weather gravel road. The geozone is about 1 kilometre from the highway.  There is no need to look in the stone wall.

This cache has been hidden as a part of a number of other historical caches in and around Springton recognising 2014 as the 150th anniversary of the town's founding

The Friedensberg Historic German School Museum is today located down an unsealed road, about 2 km from the village of Springton.  The small stone building is equipped as a typical old-fashioned one-room school of the late Victorian period.  Some of the original furniture and fittings are displayed such as wooden desks and benches with inkwells and slates, a blackboard, a British flag to salute and a map of the world showing the British Empire in pink. There is an organ in the corner and the teacher’s desk at the front bearing the much-feared cane. Displays of German school books, samples of written work and photographs of the period can be viewed at the back of the classroom. The school was built in 1861 on land and with money donated by wealthy businessman George Fife Angas (1789-1879). Called Friedensberg or ‘Hill of Peace’, it operated as a school during the weekdays but on Sundays the furniture was rearranged for church services.