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Christmas Tree in The Sandkuhle (875 Years Wanna) Traditional Cache

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Gruß,
Sanne

Kanne und Siki
(Official Geocaching.com Volunteer Reviewer)

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Hidden : 6/2/2014
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache was placed to celebrate the 875th Anniversary of Wanna and to show you a place that I remember from my childhood. “Sandkuhle” as we called it back then.

Park somewhere along the road Steenacker and walk from there to get to the cache.

The cache is along the egde of an approximately 3 meter deep excavated area, but sloping nicely at the cache location, such that you can bring your kids without worries.


The sand grounds, which Wanna is built on, was brought here by the glaciers of the ice-age before last the ice-age. The area where the cache is located was used by a local farmer’s cooperative to dig out sand for building purposes. In the first half of the 20th century it was also used as a garbage dump. Until ten years ago, you could find a lot of junk here, when you were a child playing. Everything from the smallest plastic parts to cars and old oil barrels etc. But as this area is inside the watershed area of the Wanna waterworks, some smart people found out that leakage from here might not increase the water-quality. So, just about the time when geocaching started, the county of Cuxhaven decided to take over this area and remove all junk from the grounds. This work is completed now and kids can play here again without risking cutting themselves on rusty car-parts.

Back in my younger years, we put some candles in the tree that the cache is located in, on the first day of advent each year. Now this tree has become quite big. Good hunting!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ybt haqre ybt

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)