Judging from the map, the border runs along the southern edge of
Nieuwstraat (the part between the bifurcation and bdy. marker 232).
So the houses on the south of the road may have their addresses in
Aachener Strasse, but the road is Dutch. South of the bifurcation, as
you can see on the map, two roads, on both sides of the border, are
depicted. This used to be the situation when there was a small, low
wall in the middle of the street, some years ago. I don't know
whether they ever had a similar construction, for the Germans living
in Aachener Strasse, in the part of Nieuwstraat that runs SW - NE, up
to bdy. marker 232. Judging from this map (which can be risky, as
I've been losing my much of confidence in Dutch topo maps recently),
this could only have been done building a small road through the
front gardens of the Germans. Or it was the other way around, and
with the opening up of the border the Germans could expand their
front gardens, because they were able to use the Nieuwstraat directly
from their homes.
I don't know where 232 stands, but it must be on the southern edge of
the street, too. The obvious way to find out whether the building is
_on_ the border, is to find out whether the border in between 232 and
232A goes through it. Unless the border makes an unmarked turn here.
To find this out, you'll really need to have a map of the cadaster.
The Kerkrade and Herzogenrath municipalities will know if the
building straddles the border, for sure.
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Pepijn Hendriks" <pepijnh@b...> wrote:
> Okay, here's my reconstruction, largely drawn from memory.
>
> The Germans call the first part of the Nieuwstraat Aachener Straße
> (up to where it makes its southward bend). We approached from the
> German side, walking down the road from the point where it
bifurcates
> on the righthand side of your scan. This continuation is, I
believe,
> also called Aachener Straße. Your scan indicates border marker 232,
> standing at the junction of they Heyendallaan and the
> Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße. This junction is actually a
roundabout.
> The building is crammed between the Heyendallaan, border marker
232a,
> and actually *interrupts* the Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße (where
this
> road constitutes the border) and the Aachener Straße. The
roundabout
> is in front of the building. Coming from the Aachener Straße you
> can't see the Nieuwstraat/Aachener Straße: you have to go around
the
> building.
>
> This being the case, I see no other option than that the building
> actually *does* straddle the border.
>
> -Pepijn
>
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