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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Drachenfelsquelle Alternative Name: ZiepchenCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 8.464 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Bad Honnef Nearest Village: Rhöndorf
Latitude: 50.659440N Longitude: 7.212958E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Harald_Platta visited on 25th Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5
Originally, the site had a well pond before the modern stone spring was built. According to local legends, the well lies close to the site where Sigurd (Siegfried) slew the dragon Fafnir.
Literature:
[01] Haenel, M.: Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf Drachenfelsquelle. In: Wasserquellen-Atlas [Webpage].
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