Würzburg, Germany

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Today's Location: [Würzburg, Germany]

About

This graticule is at latitude 49, longitude 9. It contains the cities of Würzburg and Heilbronn and many fields and forests. The German Bundesländer (states) touched by this graticule are Baden-Württemberg (EU:DE:BW), Bayern (Bavaria, EU:DE:BY) and Hessen (Hesse, EU:DE:HE).

Saturday meetup time is 15:00 from the end of daylight saving time (last Sunday in October) to the end of January, to allow returning home by twilight instead of total darkness. (proposed by Danatar)

Local Geohashers

Danatar - In Würzburg, owner of a bike and a WVV tramway+bus ticket.
thepiguy - Working at the university until the end of the year. He has a bike, and he knows how to use it.
srs0 - With thepiguy. He's also working at the university, and also has a bike, though he can't use it as well as thepiguy.As he found out the hard way.Srs0 knows how to use his bike just fine, and has done many stupid things with it before, especially on mountains. He just hadn't screwed up until recently. When he said that he meant that he's not in as good shape as thepiguy

Expeditions

most recent first

2009-06-11: Thepiguy and Danatar cycled to a sugar beet field near Herchsheim.
2009-05-28: Srs0 and thepiguy reached this forest geohash at around 19:10, and Danatar reached it a bit later.
2009-05-27: Fail! Thepiguy and Srs0 went to the field near Bütthard, but were stopped 100m from the point by no tresspassing. This was their hashiversaries!
2009-05-25: Towel day! Danatar and user:thepiguy took "stylish" photos in a forest, wearing only their towels, while srs0 took pictures for them.
2009-05-23: Thepiguy and Srs0 biked to a forest for Mouse Over Day!
2009-05-11: Fail! Danatar wasn't allowed to enter company property in Aschaffenburg.
2009-05-10: thepiguy, srs0 and Danatar met in the deep forest near Retzstadt.
2009-05-09: lyx, relet and the gang celebrated an unsuspecting tree near Michelstadt.
2009-04-13: Ekorren did a long detour on the way to Stuttgart and found a quiet valley at Obersontheim-Herlebach.
2009-04-10: Fail! Danatar had a flat tire.
2009-02-21: Danatar almost stood in deer droppings in the forest near Erlabrunn/Würzburg.
2009-02-12: In Würzburg, 0.85 km from Danatar's home.
2009-01-29: In the forest near Waldbrunn/Würzburg (Danatar)
2009-01-08: Danatar lowered the temperature record to -9.6°C on a field near Würzburg-Rottenbauer.
2008-12-09: Fail! Danatar blew up his bicycle with a tire inflator before reaching the hashpoint.
2008-12-08: Danatar cycled through the Guttenberger Wald forest to Kist.
2008-11-27: In Fuchsstadt near Würzburg, you have to guess who went there by bike.
2008-11-24: ilpadre and Danatar built snowmen next to the church in Bad Wimpfen.
2008-10-24: Danatar cycled to the Gramschatzer Wald forest near Würzburg/Rimpar.
2008-10-21: A meadow near Neckarsulm, Danatar made a detour while going to his parents by train.
2008-10-13: A forest between Zellingen and Billigshausen, Danatar by bike again.
2008-10-08: Danatar achieved a midnight déja-vu walk geohash in a vineyard in Würzburg.
2008-10-02: A forest near Retzstadt, Danatar had a hard time getting there by bike.
2008-09-20: A sugar beet field near Vilchband. Danatar went 30 km by bike to be the only one at a Saturday 4pm Meetup.

The Würzburg, Germany graticule earned the Mostly Active Graticule achievement

for the month of October 2008 in the category coordinates reached by being the location of 5 successful expeditions.

In this graticule

Würzburg

View over the frozen Main river with the Festung Marienberg and the Alte Mainbrücke. The Käppele church is barely visible on the hill on the left side.

Located on the river Main, Würzburg (population: 130 000; geohashers: ~~one~~ currently three, that might be the highest geohasher density worldwide) is the administrative center of the Unterfranken administrative region (part of the state Bayern/Bavaria). Famous sights include the Residenz, Festung Marienberg, the Romanesque Dom, the baroque Käppele church (de), the Falkenhaus, and the Alte Mainbrücke (Old Main Bridge, de). The University of Würzburg is one of the oldest in Germany (founded in 1402) and location of the discovery of the X-rays.

Würzburg is also a center of wine production, mainly of white wines like Müller-Thurgau and Silvaner in the traditionnal Bocksbeutel bottle, with the famous Würzburger Stein vineyard site just north of the city. Most of the famous people from Würzburg are long dead, but Basketball fans might know the name Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks).

Frankfurt am Main	Fulda	Gotha
Mannheim	Würzburg	Bamberg
Pforzheim	Stuttgart	Augsburg