Belgium was the austrian netherlands from the end of the war of Spanish
Succession (c.1713) to the French invasion and conquest in 1792.
Brendan

>From: Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Saint Martin Stone
>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:05:22 +0100
>
>Peter Smaardijk wrote:
>
> > > perhaps too there are still older ones i am not aware of
> > > which needless to say i would be thrilled to learn about
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Well, I know of a particularly nice one on the Dutch-Belgian border. Of
>course this is also doubled
> > by a boundary marker of the standard type, but it is still there. It
>stands in the border village of
> > Overslag, and as I recall it has the name Oostenrijk (=Austria) on it at
>the Belgian side. So the
> > stone probably dates back to the 18th century, when this part of Belgium
>(actually, most of it) was
> > part of the Austrian empire. Hopefully Eef can make a picture of it when
>he's coming to this one on
> > one of the next stages of his journey...
> >
> > Peter S.
> >
>
>Confirmed: I just found a tiny picture of one of the Austrian border
>stones, with a standard Dutch one
>in the background. It says here that there are Austrian border markers
>(plural!) in this village,
>dating back to the reign of Margaret of Austria. I think that was the 18th
>century.
>
>http://www.axel.nl/toerisme.htm
>
>Look for Overslag
>
>Peter S.
>

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