“Treasure” retrieved – holiday children made a war discovery in the Kraigermeer

The families of Christian Hromatka and Florian Gsottbauer from Vienna have been spending their holidays on the idyllic Kraiger See for years. “The children discovered the so-called treasure under the mud a few years ago,” says Gsottbauer in an interview with “Krone”. And the little ones did not give up, they always wanted to have the unknown metal chest from the Kraiger See and know what was hidden inside.

The find turned out to be a Nazi war relic
And this year it finally happened. Together with Gsottbauer, the little ones lifted the metal part and pulled it 120 meters across the lake with a pedal boat and two standing boards towards the lido. When we arrived at the shore, we were disillusioned: nobody knew what the unknown piece of metal actually was. “Because I am familiar with old motorcycles, I first thought it was a trailer for motorcycles,” says Gsottbauer, who then did some research on forums. And during the research it turned out that the alleged treasure from Lake Kraiger is a relic from the Second World War. To be precise: a German Wehrmacht infantry cart. This trailer was produced during the war years and was used by the ground troops as a means of transport for machine guns, grenade launchers and ammunition.

While Frauenstein’s mayor Harald Janach thanked the finders with an ice cream, Gsottbauer is now thinking about what to do with the special find: “One possibility is that I sell the infantry cart and distribute the money among the children.”