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Location

This Geohash is located next to a lake in Sarstedt.

Participants

Plans

Fippe

OSM says that this is a quarry, but it looks like a regular meadow on Google's satellite view. I'll try to get as close as possible at 16:00.

DLichti

Take the tram to Sarstedt, do some OSM mapping, be at the hash around 16:00, take the tram to get home, again.

Expedition

Fippe

I cycled to Laatzen and took the train to Sarstedt from there, and cycled the rest of the distance. While I waited on the path near the site, two girls on horseback passed me. After a few minutes, DLichti arrived.

Together we got onto the southern meadow walking on the edge between it and the piece of land the Geohash was on. We followed some horse tracks connecting the two areas over the edge. This was no quarry, but also not a meadow, it appeared to be an unused piece of land. On the edge between this area and an adjacent forest we located the coordinates and recorded proof. We waited there until 16:00, but nobody else showed up.

Afterwards we walked to the train station, where our ways parted. I took the train back to Laatzen and cycled home.

DLichti

I took the tram all the way to Sarstedt, the terminal station on Line 1. From there, I started walking westwards through the town center while mapping details on OSM. My way took me past an old church (built in 1457) catchting the last sun rays, and an invisible wooden gate.

At the train station (also called Sarstedt, but different from the tram station), I discovered a smokebox door of a class 44, also called Jumbo on Rails. Unfortunately, except for an axle with two small wheels, the rest of the locomotive was missing. (There must be something about this town that makes big things disappear.)

I realized that the mapping had slowed me down quite a bit, and it was not much time left to reach the hash. So I put my phone away and started walking out of town to pass under the third parallel rail line in the area, which is the high speed line between Göttingen and Hannover.

When I came close to the hash, Fippe was already waiting there. We went to the exact location to take pictures and proof. At 16:00, noone else had shown up, so we went back to the train station.

After Fippe had left, I walked into the town towards the tram station, taking my time to map more details on OSM. In the central pedestrian area, a small brass ensemble was playing christmas songs from a building window. I reached the station just right to catch the next tram back to Hannover.