Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Saint Martin Stone
Date: Mar 10, 2001 @ 00:26
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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Probably means Maria Theresa of austria? c.1740-

Brendan


>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Saint Martin Stone
>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 06:10:18 -0500
>
>peter
>what a beauty
>nice shooting
>
>moreover i found 2 margarets of austria
>& both are even earlier than 18th c
>one d1611 & the other d1530
>
>& another fascinating aspect of any austrian rocks found on the benl line
>is that they must have lapsed as international boundary markers centuries
>before the belgian dutch cleavage in the 1830s restored them to active
>international duty
>
>they may have continued to serve in the interim as internal dutch boundary
>markers
>but of course i am only guessing about that
>
>i do think however that any such interval would not disqualify them as
>candidates for the oldest working world class boundary stone
>but would rather specially distinguish them as comeback kids
>
>m
>
> >
> >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> http://www.axel.nl/toerisme.htm
> >
> >Look for Overslag
> >
> >Peter S.
> >
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