Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: vianden castle found but on wrong bank
Date: Apr 23, 2001 @ 01:52
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>Yes I knew that, but I was rather thinking of the castle being in the
>middle of some sort of a military defined area (e.g. the area a
>cannon can cover from the castle), or something else. The castle
>seems to be guarding the bridge, and the territory on the left bank
>could be considered a bridgehead, belonging to the nobleman in
>possession of the bridge and the castle as well. Note that Vianden is
>on both banks of the river Our, but other towns on the boundary river
>(be it Our or Sauer) are definitely divided, e.g. Wallendorf
>(D)/Wallendorf-Pont (L), Dasburg (D)/Dasburg-Pont (L), Bollendorf
>(D)/Bollendorf-Pont (L), Dillingen (L)/Dillingerbrueck (D),
>Echternach (L)/Echternacherbrueck (D), Wasserbillig
>(L)/Wasserbilligerbrueck (D). The fact that a similar thing didn't
>happen to Vianden has possibly (although this is a guess and I
>haven't seen any evidence in writing of it) to do with the feudal
>situation at this particular place.
>
>Peter S.
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>--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
>> <http://luxembourg.co.uk/pics/vianden_water.jpg>
>>http://luxembourg.co.uk/pics/vianden_water.jpg
>> places vianden castle squarely above the right bank of the river
>ours
>> & thus on the wrong bank for it to have really been a bicondominial
>> tripoint castle
>> oops
>> tho the vianden seigneury as a whole may still have spanned the 2
>condos &
>> their terminal points
>> depending of course on the dates of them all
>> for whatever that may still be worth
>> even if not a cherry on top
>>
>> in any case the news throws the cause & minimum age of the peculiar
>> luxembourg salient on the left bank of the ours into some doubt
>> since it could now conceivably have had nothing to do with the
>castle or
>> its position
>>
>> m
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