Subject: Baarle photos<br/>
Date: Mar 13, 2001 @ 02:19<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1845356250">Here are 5 photos of interesting places in Baarle.<br/>
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1&2)The border runs through the bottle shop at H1/M3 and a furniture <br/>
warehouse at H1/N5. They have marked the borders on the floor here.<br/>
<br/>
3)The photo of the sharp corner of some buildings has the border running <br/>
along the foot of the front wall of the shops, making a sharp angle to the <br/>
right, leaving the pavement in H1 and the shops and buildings in Baarle <br/>
Nassau proper. This is next to the Belgian church (behind me the <br/>
photographer). The awning over the shops and the sharp angle is therefore in <br/>
Belgium but the shops themselves in Holland!<br/>
<br/>
4) The photo of the zigzag border in the street is taken fomr the south in <br/>
H1 looking north to the Dutch town hall. The grey &#39;z&#39; in the street is the <br/>
border. Note the coasts of arms on the right hand pavement. The bronze <br/>
plaque with the map of the enclaves would be astride the border on the left <br/>
pavement, just out of shot. The church is behind me again.<br/>
This shot is 100m east of the one above.<br/>
<br/>
5) The elusive quad point. The harvested corn in front right is H2. The <br/>
unharvested corn rear-right and on front-left is Dutch, and the corn <br/>
rear-left is Belgian (H1). The metal stake in the angle is the &#39;unofficial&#39; <br/>
point, marking how far the farmers can harvest up to. They put it there, so <br/>
it is unofficial. I think the farmers concerned are all related. You can see <br/>
there are no fences or obvious field divisions. The gap in the corn behind <br/>
the stake is the line between H1 and Netherlands, running north to the road <br/>
100m further on, though the last few metres, the gap disappeared. There is a <br/>
fencepost at the roadside marking the approximate location of where the <br/>
border hits the road and follows it NE, but it is coincidental. There is no <br/>
similar gap between H1 and the left hand Dutch corn.<br/>
Basically, there are 4 boundaries meeting at that stake, all approx <br/>
90degrees apart .<br/>
Angle of H1 is 84.351deg, angle of H2 is 90.866, angle of Holland fomr SW is <br/>
90.262, angle of Holland fomr NE is 94.531.<br/>
Thus it is as good as 2 straight lines crossing each other.<br/>
<br/>
If you look at the maps on the previous post, this photo was taken just <br/>
inside the western border of H12 looking pretty much north.<br/>
<br/>
B<br/>
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