My reply to the original post has been delayed by the email gremlins. There
is only one cross, in the middle of a corn field.
There are many jigs in the border, like the 'staircase' effect here in the
photo, but certainly no other crosses. I have the maps and treaty to prove
it! I have counted up all the turning points in total, and the total per
enclave. There are 959 different turning points at Baarle, but a sum of the
turning points of all 30 enclaves gives 960, showing that there is only one
point shared between two enclaves, the cross, point 5109, between H1 and H2.
It sits at Belgian coordinates 189723.02, 236426.35 . These figures are
distances in metres on the national grid form the origin of the grid. As
there are 2 decimal places, the point is defined to the nearest centimetre.
In the Dutch grid, the point is 123902.44, 383096.99
Brendan
The smallest gap either between enclaves or of chickennecks within them is a
mere 2.9m chickenneck within enclave H16. The narrowest between enclaves is
a 7.09m between H1 and H4.
Map and border corss pics to follow when i have time.
B
>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Baarle-enclaves : interesting pictures
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:25:09 -0500
>
>succulent morsels indeed eef
>
>that map & pic make me want to press on for an extra boundary cross in
>baarle
>because i once saw a photo on the internet very much like this one of yours
>but showing a clear cobblestone cross that was also said to be there in the
>caption
>& your map image too seems to hold out the hope of there being just such a
>one at lower right
>
>i realize i may be way off here & that my notion doesnt harmonize well with
>brendans eye witness testimony that there is indeed only a single baarle
>cross
>& that that one is in an agricultural setting rather than a street scene
>but i cant get it out of my mind that i saw it
>
>can you or anyone else sort this out
>
>m
>
>btw
>i have been meaning to tell you i also really enjoyed your mention of your
>coast to coast walk of the pyrenees highway
> was it route number 10 or some such
>& that i am also a great fan of devouring entire roads like that
>
>rivers too
>come to think of it
>
>also btw
>are you planning to continue your benl walk thru baarle country & on to the
>coast
>
> >
> >Appetizer for de GCEBE-ers: on
> ><http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kt/kt-online/nr4_text.htm>
> >http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kt/kt-online/nr4_text.htm
> >you will see near the end of this page two pictures taken in
>Baarle-Nassau.
> >One of a copper plate (exactly on the border) with the enclaves imaged on
> >it, the other of a street with the twisting borderline as a white line on
> >the pavement.
> >
> >
> >vriendelijke groet,
> >
> >Eef Berns
> >
> >-----------------------
> >websites:
> >- de grenspalen van Nederland: <http://huizen.dds.nl/~eefberns>
> >http://huizen.dds.nl/~eefberns
> >
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