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Mirków kapliczka / Chapel from Mirków Traditional Cache

Hidden : 2/13/2011
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Geocache Description:

[pl] Krzyz wotywny z dawnej osady przy fabrycznej

[en] Cross Votive with the former settlement at the factory

[pl]

[O miejscu] Niedaleko papierni w Mirkowie, ( dzielnicy Konstancina-Jeziorny), na sztucznie usypanym wzgórzu, stoi ciekawa kapliczka - krzyz wotywny z zeliwa.
Wystawili ja w 1856 pracownicy papierni, mieszkajacy w nieodleglym osiedlu robotniczym.
Do dzis zywa jest legenda, jakoby pierwszy krzyz w tym miejscu stanal po powstaniu listopadowym na pamiatke polskich zolnierzy poleglych w 1831 r.

Kilka kroków od krzyza znajduje sie staw, ponad którym dominuje komin papierni. Stad najefektowniej prezentuja sie tez same zabudowania fabryki, oraz neogotycki kosciól. Warto stanac, tuz nad tafla wody i uwiecznic ten widok robiac zdjecie.


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[en] [The place]
Near the paper mill in Mirków (district of Konstancin-Jeziorna), on an artificial hill, is an interesting chapel - a votive cross of iron. Staged it in 1856 mill workers who lived near in the working-class colony.
To this day, is a living legend, that the first cross stood in this place after the November Uprising in memory of Polish soldiers who died in 1831

A few steps from the cross is a a pond, which dominates over the chimney of the mill. Thus most clearly presents the same buildings or factories, and the neo-Gothic church. Is worth stand, just above the waterline and immortalize this view by making pictures.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fmpmryvan j qemrjvr / gur tnc va gerr

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)