A most interesting map, Mats. Although it has nothing to do with the
condominia/Vianden boundary issue, it is the first time I see
evidence of the war repair claims of Luxembourg on Germany. I was
only aware of the Dutch claims (some of it was awarded in 1949 but
returned in 1963, like Elten and the Selfkant area), and French
claims, but now the Kammerwald creeps in as well.
Michael, this Kammerwald you came up with, a recreational forest as
it is called here, is probably an entirely different Kammerwald, as
it is on the web site of the land government of Schleswig-Holstein
(in the north of Germany). It is part, it says here, of the
municipality of Haffkrug-Scharbeutz, which I can find in my atlas
near the city of Luebeck.
The Kammerwald near Vianden is not occupied by Luxembourg (anymore?),
and the Vianden border detour definitely predates the 2nd world war.
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Mats Hessman <Mats@l...> wrote:
> > is kammenwald some sort of enclave or something
> > just hanging out here with delu for convenience
>
> Colleagues,
>
> By chance i found the article "Recent Changes in the
> Benelux-German Boundary", Lewis M Alexander, The
> Geographical Rewiew (don't know year and volume as
> I have only a Xerox copy, but probably late fifties
> or sixties).
>
> It says about Kammerwald: "Belgium was granted all
> her demands [on Germany], but Luxembourg was awarded
> only a strip of land along the Our River, some eight
> square miles in area, containing one German village
> of about 130 inhabitants. The strip adjoined the
> Vianden bridgehead and included a state forest, the
> Kammerwald."
>
> Later on: "At the same time the Luxembourg government
> announced that it would occupy only the uninhabited
> Kammerwald and leave the rest of the area alone. [...]
> It seems unlikely now that Luxembourg sovereignity
> will ever be exercised over the inhabitants."
>
> This map was shown (approx 270 kBytes):
> http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Fig3.png
>
> I know there is a hunt for condominiums going on in
> this group, but I'm afraid I haven't really followed
> the debate. Hence, if my information is obsolete
> or off topic I apologize.
>
> An executive summary as to what we know about the
> number and locality of one or more delu condominiums
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mats