Vienna FLAK - (Augarten Complex - L Tower) Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 10/11/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Augarten, Vienna
(This Flaktower complex is an example of 3rd Generation design)

The G-Tower remains empty.
The L-Tower remains empty.

Augarten Park closes in the evening, so night-caching is not possible... Normal park hours vary depending on the season, usually the park is open at a minimum from 6:30 to 17:00

TRIVIA: Despite being different heights individually, the FLAK Towers' tops were all the exact same height above sea level allowing them to coordinate and triangulate their firing attacks. The augarten towers, at 51m are the tallest in Vienna, and had an "accurate" firing range of over 20Km!

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 a L-Tower (Fire Control Tower)


After the end of the war, the demolition of the towers was in most cases unfeasible and many remain to this day. 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, you are within the park walls, and only the L tower is visible...

Please make sure to return the container exactly as found!!!

PLEASE use stealth abilities!, as muggle concentration is usually high and the Cache has already been muggle-lifted once...

Logs with spoiler pics will be deleted when the listed is maintained or reviewed... Please do not post pictures of the hide location or the container itself.

[EDIT: 27-12-2009 Trivia updated]

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[1] Ybbx gb n "ubyl" cynpr

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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