2017-06-28 48 9

Location

Stuetzlesweg/Bohnackerstrasse, Echterdingen, Germany

Participants

Klaus

Plans

I noticed in the morning, that this hash is less than 1km from where I'm staying at the moment. As I have a day off, too, this should be very easy.

Expedition

I started walking at around 11:50. As the whole walking distance back and forth was less than 2km, I decided to walk a few hundreds meters more and to visit the "Zeppelin-Stone".

In 1908, a zeppelin had to do an emergency landing there because of a motor defect. Ten thousands of people came to visit the zeppelin, however in the afternoon a thunderstorm teared the ropes apart, the zeppelin drifted away and exploded, after the hydrogen was ignited by static electricity. This was bad luck for Zeppelin, who wanted to demonstrate the capabilities of zeppelins. However there was a lot of sympathy of the people and they raised 6.5 million goldmark to build new zeppelins. This was the short version, for more details you can read the German Wikipedia.

The geohash itself was easily reachable near on the small street Stuetzlesweg. At 12:18 (after visiting the zeppelin stone), I reached it and walked back home where I arrived at around 12:30.