The other Alsatian rock is on the border of Alsace and Lorraine.
Since for the last century and a half these two lands always went
together in traveling back & forth between the German and French
states, it's probably a long time ago that this stone served as an
international border marker. Still it's a nice one. The cross on top
of it dates back to 1787, it says here, but the stone underneath
dates from 'the time of the druids...' So possibly a place of worship
that became a border stone much later. This stone possibly still
serves as a departemental boundary marker between the departements
Moselle and Lower Rhine.
The one at Pfetterhouse, by the way, probably still serves as an
ordinary border marker on the chfr border.
In the same category this little and not very clear picture of the
confluence of the White and Black Przemsza in Poland, near Myslowice,
which was 'Three Emperors' Corner' in the period 1815-1914 (the
atderu tripoint, although it debatable whether these ISO codes can be
applied to those old empires):
http://www.myslowice.gronet.pl/histo.htm . I remember to have seen a
picture in a book of a monument standing there.
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
> very nice
> a paleochdefr
>
> i think the number of extant ghost tripoint monuments must be
rather small
> since they appear to invite confusion & irredentism
>
>
> it also reminds me
> can this other alsatian rock be placed &or dated as a boundary
monument
> http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/tourisme/bitche/breintenstein.htm
>
> m
>
>
> >
> >When the Alsace was still part of Germany, the tripoint between
> >Switzerland, Germany, and France was near the village of
Pfetterhouse
> >(at that time probably called Pfetterhausen). The border marker,
> >dating from 1890, is still there, according to this web site:
> ><http://www.multimania.com/pfetterhouse/village/village_borne.htm>
> >http://www.multimania.com/pfetterhouse/village/village_borne.htm
> >It says here that it replaced an old Habsburg border stone.
> >
> >Peter S.
> >
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