Subject: Berlin exclaves revisited, Bottcherberg<br/>
Date: Jun 25, 2001 @ 19:35<br/>
Author: Mats Hessman (Mats Hessman &lt;blofeld_es@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1969427368">Peter Smaardijk wrote:<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;The situation at where it says &quot;Neu-Babelsberg&quot; is the location of <br/>
&gt;the former three Boettcherberg enclaves. I have never seen a map of <br/>
&gt;these (at this time, they didn&#39;t exist anymore). How did they look?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I had the opportunity briefly to visit the Bottcherberg-area<br/>
just the other week.<br/>
<br/>
Here is an excerpt from a cadastral map of Berlin, Stadtplan<br/>
von Berlin, part 4063/3063, 1:4000 from 1953. (Taken<br/>
from T Book, &quot;Angerdorf och Exklav&quot;, Vaxjo 1984)<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_Bottcherberg_overlayed.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/Book_Bottcherberg_overlayed.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
I have named the three exclaves (overlayed in red text) and tried<br/>
to hint the photoangles (overlayed in blue) of the following <br/>
pictures.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 01<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb01_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb01_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows the two southern exclaves, looking east. West Berlin<br/>
is in the darkness behind a wall to the right. The small chruch<br/>
is not visible behind the bushes to the left.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 02<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb02_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb02_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows the two southern exclaves and parts of West and<br/>
East Berlin. I am not quite sure where the borders actually<br/>
are (were!). For example, is the border following the wall<br/>
to the left, or does it follow the edge of the plaster?<br/>
<br/>
Picture 03<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb03_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb03_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This is the same area from another angle. Again the precise<br/>
location of the border is difficult to fix. Did the pavement<br/>
to the right form part of &quot;Bottcherberg SE&quot; or not? The streets<br/>
look newly repaired to me, and I expect this area was part<br/>
of the border zone before 1989, when the roads were probably<br/>
not covered with plaster.<br/>
<br/>
Picture 04<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb04_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb04_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
This shows the norther exclave, looking west. Parts of the<br/>
churchyard is visible to the left. I think the entire area<br/>
was used as a churchyard, at least prior to 1961, but the <br/>
northern part was converted to part of the border zone.<br/>
Probably at least some of the border installations stood on<br/>
this part of West Berlin soil at some time. I wonder<br/>
if the East German authorities had any idea about the <br/>
exclave?<br/>
<br/>
Picture 05<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb05_annotated.jpg">http://www.geocities.com/exclaves/berlin_bb05_annotated.jpg</a><br/>
The northern exclave again, this time seen from West Berlin.<br/>
Note the extremely narrow gap between &quot;mainland&quot; West Berlin<br/>
and the exclave. The hinted borderlines are, of course,<br/>
tentative.<br/>
<br/>
Mats</div>