Whicxh reminds me...
Besides the 5 enclaves along the Belg-German border near monschau, there was
another some way south, much closer to Lux, west of a small German village
called Bleiauf (which wascalso the name of the appropriate 1:25 000 Germn
topo sheet). This was a very small enclave, agian caused by a Belgian
railway crossing into Germany for a few hundred metres. The border at this
point was a river (the Our). The whole line there has been ripped up and an
autobahn runs through nearby.
Apparently, according to a source in Belgium, when the line fell into disuse
and was lifted, the enclave disappeared, and the formation was used in
places as a road/path foby farmers. This is what happened to the short bit
of line in Germany.
The border markers along it were also lifted, but it seems there is a chair
and picnic table made out of these concrete pillars along that lifted
ex-enclave stretch.
See Belgian Topo Burg-Reuland, 56/7-8 (scale 1:25 000) or 1:50 000 St Vith,
# 56&56A.
The enclave was at:
6deg 10min 15sec east, 50deg 13min 30sec north.
The German hamlet in the ex-enclave on the border is Hammeres, 2km SE of the
autobahn numbered in Germany as A60 E42.
If anyone gets there, I want a photo of the pillar picnic furniture, ok???
Brendan
>From: "Doug Murray" <dmurray@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] GCEBE - dates fixed !
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:39:55 -0800
>
>
>Maybe a picnic, where the border runs through the table. Half the table
>could serve Belgian food (waffles? chocolate?) and the other side could
>hold Dutch fare (chocolate sprinkles? Orange liqeur?).
>
>Food for thought. Hahahahaha... wait till you guys have to spend 11 days
>with me!!!
>
>Doug "If it wasn't for television, I'd be in a madhouse" Murray
>
> >From: "Peter Hering" <hering@...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> >To: "BoundaryPoint@egroups.com" <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] GCEBE - dates fixed !
> >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:08:41 +0100 (Rom, normaltid)
> >
> >
> >
> >Hello everybody interested in the "GCEBE":
> >
> >Day 1 (arrival Copenhagen) will be
> > Thursday Sept. 6 !
> >
> >Day 10 and 11 (end of trip):
> > Saturday/Sunday Sept. 15/16 !
> >
> >I'll try to arrange a kind of "farewell-dinner" or
> >-lunch in Baarle where we could meet some of
> >the other European border freaks...!!
> >
> >All the best
> >Peter
>
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