i love anachronistic grotesqueries like atderu
but this is delightful news also about my own favorite candidate for rock
of ages
for you have confirmed what i had only surmised
that the monster of breintenstein is a living rock
& also that it is at least a sometime major leaguer
so i do believe now
if we look for the oldest treaty covering this alsace lorraine line
we may soon be able to declare a very putative rock of ages
sheesh
it really looks like it might be the real mccoy too
m
>
>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>
>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>
>>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>
>> ><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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