Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Roetgen/Monschau enclaves
Date: Jun 06, 2001 @ 02:50
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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The road junction from Roetgen (west) Monschau (south) and
Lammersdorf(east).
The blank southern area is Belgium proper, the north with the details, the
larger of the two roegten enclaves.
The roads west and eats are German to their edges, then Belgium kicks in.
The traffic island is on top of a hill, so the railway, Belgian, winds
around the hill to the far north, via Lammersdorf then south to Monschau.

according to the US Geographers "International Boundary Study No7, June 30
1961 Belgium-Germany Boundary":
"Before 1949 the three roads had been in Germany while the territory on all
sides was under Belgian administration. In 1949 the roads were provisionally
transferred to Belgium. The 1958 solution saw the cession of Belgian
territory north of the roads and the return of the two east west segments to
Germany. In turn Germany ceded the north south stretch of highway to
Belgium."
...
"Since Article 7 of the Bonnb Convention on Relations provides that the
final determination of the boundaries of Germany must await a peace
settlement of the whole of Germany, these frontier arrangements are
necessarily provisional."

Treaties covering the tripoint to enclaves area are:

Treaty of Vienna 9 June 1815. In effect 1816-1919 and 1940-45. Basic line of
boundary.

Boundary Treaty, Prussia and Netherlands, 26 June 1816. Detailed
delimitation of Congress of Vienna treaty boundary.

Treaty of London, 19 April 1839. Belgian independence.

Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919.Articles 31-35 detached Moresnet and
eupen-Malmedy fomr Germany.

Report of the Belgian-German Boundary Demarcation Commission, Aachen 6 Nov
1922. Very detailed technical report was published in Moniteur Belge, the
Belgian govt gazette, 7 March 1925 as an annex to the law incorporating the
lands into the Belgian provincial structure.

Treaty between Be and De, Aachen 10 May 1935. Two small parcels of land,
1.7sq km ceded by Belgium allowing extension of Aachen freight yards.

Report of the Western German Frontier Demarcation Commission - Southern
Group- Belgian-German Frontier, Arlon (Belgium)9 Sept 1949
7 parcels of German land provisionally placed under Belgian administration.
20sq km, 500 inhabitants.

Treaty between the FRG and the Kingdom of Belgium concerning rectification
of the German-Belgian boundary and other questions, Brussels, 24 Sept 1956.
While the 1949 changes had reduced/eliminated some problems of border admin,
customs control, communications and stream polluting, they had created
others. This treaty sought a compromise.

BW

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