Subject: Berlin exclaves revisited: Erlengrund, Fichtewiese<br/>
Date: Jun 14, 2001 @ 17:21<br/>
Author: Mats Hessman (Mats Hessman &lt;Mats@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-363527147">Colleagues,<br/>
<br/>
On a recent trip to Germany I had the opportunity to spend<br/>
a day on exclave archeology in Berlin.<br/>
<br/>
As you are all doubtless aware, and as has been discussed here<br/>
by Arif Samad and others, there existed at one time twelve<br/>
West-Berlin exclaves within DDR, as shown on this map:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_ExclaveOverview.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_ExclaveOverview.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
Key:<br/>
1: Erlengrund<br/>
2: Fichtewiese<br/>
3: Lasszinswiesen<br/>
4: Falkenhagener Wiese<br/>
5: Finkenkrug<br/>
6: Grosse Kuhlake<br/>
7: The three Boettcherberg Exclaves<br/>
8: Steinstuecken<br/>
9: Wueste Mark<br/>
10: Nuthewiesen<br/>
E: The pene-exclave of Eiskeller<br/>
<br/>
I went to take a look at what signs can be spotted of the previous<br/>
exclavic situation at Erlengrund and Fichtewiese.<br/>
<br/>
As you recall Erlengrund and Fichtewiese were used for small<br/>
summer cottages, and were run by two different garden clubs.<br/>
<br/>
Access to the exclaves were, as we are used to, rather surreal<br/>
as the cottage-owners had to ring a bell at a door in the Wall,<br/>
ask for admittance, and then walk over the otherwise off limits<br/>
border zone to their cottages.<br/>
<br/>
This is wonderfully shown on this picture, that has been shown<br/>
previously in this group: <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dieberlinermauer.com/berlinwallhome/wall25/wall25.html">http://www.dieberlinermauer.com/berlinwallhome/wall25/wall25.html</a><br/>
<br/>
And here is an aerial photo of the area from the same source:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dieberlinermauer.com/berlinwallhome/wall26/wall26.html">http://www.dieberlinermauer.com/berlinwallhome/wall26/wall26.html</a><br/>
The door with the bell would be at the bottom of the picture. The<br/>
footpath, clearly visible, passes by a control post where the East <br/>
German Border Police would check the access permissions, and then<br/>
the path forks off to Erlengrund to the right and Fichtewiese straight<br/>
ahead.<br/>
<br/>
A more detailed map can be found here:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_Erlengrund_overlayed.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_Erlengrund_overlayed.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
The dotted black line is the footpath, and the blue markings are mine<br/>
and intended to show how the following photographs were taken.<br/>
<br/>
Maps are from T Book, &quot;Angerdorf och Exklav&quot;, Vaxjo, 1984,<br/>
and are published here with the authors permission, by the way.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 01<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw01_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw01_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows the view of the two paleo-exclaves from a point within<br/>
the borderzone to the left of the footpath. <br/>
<br/>
Picture 03<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw03_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw03_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows the spot where the door and the doorbell used to be.<br/>
WB = West-Berlin, SBZ = East Germany (Sowjetische Besatzungszone).<br/>
I have tried to mark the line where I believe the border was.<br/>
Input from y&#39;all is most appreciated.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 06<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw06_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw06_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows a stone looking remarkably like a boundary marker to<br/>
my amateur eyes. Supposing it is a boundary marker, again I have<br/>
tried to trace the border. Can anyone tell me if it actually IS a<br/>
boundary marker, and if so, what do the numbers mean?<br/>
<br/>
Picture 07<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw07_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw07_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This, I&#39;m pretty sure, is probably not a boundary marker, but a pillar<br/>
where a metal plate stating DDR territory was fastened. There were<br/>
several such concrete pillars nearby. I have read somewhere that <br/>
these pillars usually stood a meter or so inside DDR territory. Again,<br/>
a tentative borderline of mine is shown.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 08<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw08_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw08_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
Another view of the two exclaves. I have also indicated where I <br/>
believe the guard house was situated.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 10<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw10_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_egfw10_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
Here is a picture looking the other way, into West-Berlin. You can<br/>
see the path branching off to the left to Erlengrund. Fichtewiese<br/>
is right behind us.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Mats</div>