Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] DENL pictures from Dinxpeerlo
Date: Mar 14, 2001 @ 11:59
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>)
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I think (but Wolfgang, I'd appreciate it if you can confirm or deny this) that picture 2 is the back of
picture 1. The coat-of-arms on picture 2 is definitely the Dutch province of Overijssel.

Peter S.

Peter Smaardijk wrote:

> Your first picture, with no. 1 (862), I can now, with the help of your pdf file and a good map (Dutch
> topo map 1:25k), positively identify as the old tripoint 'Kingdom of the Netherlands - Kingdom of Prussia
> - Kingdom of Hanover'. It is near the Dutch village of Overdinkel, in Overijssel province.
> Dutch border stones at the Prussian side are numbered 1 to 862. No. 1 was at what is now defrlu, and no.
> 193 is bedenl. North of 862, the numbering starts all over again, since it was the Dutch-Hanoverian
> boundary there.
> The stone is older than the time it became a tripoint, I think. Still don't know what coat-of-arms it is.
>
> Peter S.