thanx again mats
all 4 pages received now
& thanx to peter too for the gorgeous map
i only wondered about kammerwald because i saw it for the first time last
night in the delu monument tabulations in page 2 of the attachment to
message 2126 from wolfgang
& am just surprised it wasnt picked up on earlier
but clearly now
the name does belong to 2 different places
& in neither case does it affect the delu river condo or condos
the number of delu river condos is still in question
it or they are probably all one legal entity tho
unlike the 2 legally distinct esfr condos
we think there are at least 2 territorial areas or strips of delu
separated from each other by the vianden bridgehead
but apart from this brief interruption & exception
the condominial regime may well run the full length of the delu frontier
from defrlu to bedelu
tho even this is only a supposition & not yet fully confirmed
peter has observed that if the condo reaches bedelu at all
it would have to be extremely narrow at that point
the punctological fallout of it all so far is that
first
defrlu is not really a tricountry point at all but a tricountry line
spanning an unmatched pair of atypical condo tricountry points
delu fr lu to the west & de delu fr to the east
this triline may be unique in the world
or it may be matched by a topologically similar situation at bedelu
but we just dont know for sure yet
&or there may be other such trilines still undreamt of elsewhere
& secondarily
a pair of de delu lu condo tripoints have been confirmed
probably but not necessarily the only such
dedelulun just above the vianden bridgehead & dedelulus just below it
tho there is still a question about the monument number of the latter
m
>> 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
>
>
>
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