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Location

This Geohash is located on a field between Elstal and Dyrotz next to a high voltage pylon and a substation of the German railroad.

Participants

• Jens1964

Expedition

In the afternoon (3.11 p.m.), I started at my work, going to the railway station Berlin-Ostbahnhof by foot. The weather was very good, around 8 degrees and sunny. I took the suburbian train to Berlin-Hauptbahnhof and then went with the RE 4 regional train from there to Elstal, just a 30 minutes ride. I arrived at 4.30 p.m., a bit after the schedule. I planned to walk to the hash (about 3.5 km), but just run into the bus 662 to Priort and jumped in after I checked the route of the bus for ten seconds. That was a good decision after the bus went directely in the other direction - but just to do a little tour through Elstal and later on stopping at the "Designer Outlet Center", not too far from the Geohash. The short Elstal bus tour brought me close to the Olympic Village of 1936 (used by the „Wehrmacht“ after 1936 and later on by the Red Army), to "Karl`s Erlebnisdorf" (a kind of fair and amusement park of the biggest strawberry company in the Berlin area) and through this strange town. I wondered why it looked so artificial to me and learned that Elstal was only founded as the railworker settlement around one of the biggest marshalling yards of Germany in the 1920s. Later on a number of neighbourhoods for soldiers and officiers were added - around military camps which existed from the 1930s to 1990s.

Dropping out of the bus at 4.45 p.m. I stood in a Designer Outlet Center - just another artificial strange thing which looks like it fall out of the computer of some designers, landing on a field near all these railroad tracks. From there I had to go a little loop on a highway with a bridge crossing the railroad. This highway was surely mainly buildt for cars, and I was happy that there still was a small lane for pedestrians and bicycles. On the other side I had to take the street with the romantic name "Am Bahnstromwerk" (at the railroad electricity plant). Through a small tunnel I arrived at this plant and was happy that there was no "access forbidden" sign, but a wet unpaved road towards the field on which the geohash was located. But in that very moment a railroad worker just came by with his car, looked at me with surprise, stopped, opened the widow and killed me. Well, fortunately not, but I had some fears when he stopped because there had been a terroristic attack on a high voltage pylon near Berlin on the same day. And there were a lot of these pylons here. The worker asked me: "Can I help you!" and I answered: "No, everything is fine" (Nein, alles in Ordnung). Well, what a clever answer. But he still closed the car and drove away. I do not know what he thought, but he did not stop me on my adventure. That was what counted in this important moment.

Through the pylons the wet dirt road let me to a field and just a few minutes later I danced around the hash on that field and logged the hash with a foto on which my work bag marking the exact point close to one of these pylons [that would have been the moment to take a screenshot of my mobile phone add GeohashDroid - but after I have tried to do screenshots all day without any success and only learned to do so later with the help of the video Fippe provided in Discord, I was not able to do so]. I added a silly grinning foto of mine and felt very happy. I did it! What an important, great moment ;-) It was 5.05 p.m.

I walked all the way back to the train station, arriving there at 5.45 p.m. The next train back to Berlin was on 6.15 p.m., when it already began to get dark. I went to Berlin-Jungfernheide with the RE4, took the U7 underground/metro from there and arrived back home at 6.45 p.m., feeling very good.

Photos

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  Designer Outlet

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  Am Bahnstromwerk

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  pylons

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  field with geohash in sight

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  marking my first geohash with my work bag

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  just one more of these crazy geohashers

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  Elstal Watertower