Dear Brendan
You wouldn't have the map also for the southern part of the Mutzenich enclave?
The part where proper Belgium meets the railway, and the big bridge?
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>
To: <boundarypoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:28 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Roetgen/Monschau enclaves
> 1:5000 mapping of the roetgen enclaves is available fomr the
> Nordrhein-Westphalian survey office.
>
> Unfortunately they don't take credit cards (Europeans are very backward in
> this regard).
>
> email shop@...
>
> Landesvermessungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen, Boad Godesberg, Muffendorfer Str
> 19-21, 53177 Bonn, Germany
>
> Their Deutche Grundkarte is a xerox of the black and white (with brown
> contours) 1:5000 map that most of the LAnd produce.
> Each sheet covers 2x2km, but the sheet lines do not match up with those on
> the 1:25 000 mapping or smaller scales.
> They come close however, and you can't go too far wrong than to quote the
> 1:25k sheet number, then a second number, from 1 to 36, being 6 rows of 6
> numbered rowsie fomr the top left: 1 to 6, next row 7-12 etc. The 36 sheets
> corresponding to a 1:25 000 sheet cover an area slightly greater than that
> sheet.
>
> The BeDeNe tript is on sheet Heldsruh, 5202/14. This sheet seems to go as
> far as the little salient shown in the last email. However, no detail inside
> Ne or Be is shown, but border stones are marked.
>
> For the Roetgen enclaves, the necessary sheeets are:
> 5303/9,10 and 16 for the northernmost enclave, then
> 5303/156,17,18,19,22,23,24 and 25 for the second one at Roetgen
>
> The third, smallest enclave, near Monschau is shown on 5403/1
> The fourth enclave, at Monschau is on 5403/15,6,10,11,12,16 &17
> The fifth, southernmost enclave at Monschau is on 5403/22 &23.
> The little salient that was halved in size just below this 5th enclave, in
> the 1950s, is on sheet 5403/28.
>
> Remember that Belgian detail is not shown, except for the railway line that
> created the enclaves. Border pillars along the maiin boundary and the
> railline are shown.
>
>
> Prices are 15DM without contours, 18 with, and 18 for contours and cadastral
> info overlaid, but I think that clutters it up too much.
> Code names for the series are DGK5 N for contours, DGK5 G for uncontoured,
> and DGK5 Bo for contours and cadaster.
> So the tripoint sheet with contours is DGK5 N 5202/14.
>
> The extracts included here are of:
>
> 1) The smallest enclave, the middle one, consisting of one house and a
> couple of small pasture fields.
>
> 2) The railway station at Monschau. Note how the road, German, cuts into the
> Belgian station land.
>
> 3)the narrow gap between the two northernmost enclaves at Roetgen, where the
> railline swings back into mainland Belgium for just a few metres before
> swinging out again.
>
> 4) The traffic island now on the border of belgium, inside the second of the
> two Roetgen enclaves, that used to be an enclave itself when the Germans
> owned the road south from here towards Monschau. The island is a parking
> spot with a prefab cafe. On the southern side of the road is a hotel/small
> supermarket/liquorshop.
>
> The extracts included here are from contour maps, but no cadastral info
>
> BW
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