The salient can be seen at the bottom of
http://stadtplan.intern.cityweb.de/HClientZoom.asp?geoXkoord=4921927&geoYkoord=3546534&BZoom=750&Navig=O&bannername=news&startxkoord=4922407&startykoord=3547334&startstrasse=Geusenweg+
Hopefully this works. If not, choose at
http://stadtplan.intern.cityweb.de/ the city Aachen and the
street Geusenweg, click on Strasse zeigen, and pan to the southwest.
Peter S.
Brendan Whyte wrote:
> I had to look up Belvedere in my dictionary. He means of course the viewing
> tower, the Tour Badouin (sp?) just inside the Belgian angle at the tripoint.
> When I was there the ticket man at the base was Dutch and he accepted cash
> in the three currencies AND Euros in credit. The souvenir shop also accepted
> three currencies, and was in Holland. The lady said the mai problem was
> tills are not designed for so many notes and coins.
> Of further interest is the German salient into Belgium perhaps 500m
> south(east) of the tripoint. Belgium is forested here, and Germany in
> pasture. there is a thin rectangular salient of pasture, that penetrates
> into Belgium. The far end is also firested, though seems to be pines rather
> than the surroundnig deciduous trees.
> There is a cycle/walking path along the edge of the forest and on the border
> that crosses this pasture salient, and the boundary pillars are at the
> turnstiles(!) at each side of the pasture. Walking up the fenceline of the
> slaient one crosses into the pines and a couple of hundred metres in there
> are the boundary pillars at the salient's end. It's a bit of a strange
> boundary!
>
> The construction Harry speaks of was underway when I was there in Oct last.
> The place is beginning to look a little like a fairground though, a pity
> given the lovely forest and pastures around.
>
> B
>
> >From: "Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Tripoint BeGeNe: informationcentre
> >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:49:09 +0200
> >
> >In a Dutch newspaper (Volkskrant, 24-03-2001) there was an article of Rudi
> >Rotthier on the tripoint BeGeNe.
> >Most important and new information (to me at least) is, that an
> >informationcentre on the tripoint is being build.
> >The centre will be called Bezoekerscentrum Drielandenpunt.
> >So besides the restaurant, the belvedere, the shop, the tristone and the
> >symbolic tripoint, the highist point of Ne, the rememberance of Neutral
> >Moresnet, the labyrinth, there is a lot to of interesting stuff for the
> >tourist ...... and the boundery freak.
> >
> >It should be open by june. That's well before the GCEBE!
> >
> >gl
> >Harry ten Veen