Subject: Re: County exclaves and fragments<br/>
Date: Oct 01, 2000 @ 17:56<br/>
Author: brwhyte@hotmail.com (brwhyte@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-435460899">Find Aachen, Germany in your atlas. Find the belgian town of Eupen, <br/>
10 miles to the south. Now head east. Just across the border back in <br/>
germany is Rotgen, and 6 miles SE of that is Monschau. The 5 enclaves <br/>
are along this border between Rotgen and Monschau. If you have a good <br/>
map it will show the rail line crossing the border in several places. <br/>
When the rail line goes into germany, it is actually Belgian <br/>
sovereign territory.<br/>
Belgian 1:100 000 maps and larger scales show it nicely. As the rail <br/>
line is only used for freight, not passengers, nowadays, no one <br/>
really cares about it.<br/>
I hope to go there in the next month.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan Whyte<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Do you know where this is exactly? Can you give us more details?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Jesper<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;  The second are five pieces of German territory in<br/>
&gt; &gt; Belgium.  What happens is that there is a railway,<br/>
&gt; &gt; which is not only owned by Belgium, but it also owns<br/>
&gt; &gt; the land on which the rail goes.  When the railroad<br/>
&gt; &gt; goes into German territory and comes back, it creates<br/>
&gt; &gt; enclaves of German territory in between Belgium and<br/>
&gt; &gt; the railway.  There are five such enclaves.  The<br/>
&gt; &gt; enclaves show up as enclaves in German and Belgian<br/>
&gt; &gt; topo maps.<br/>
&gt; &gt; </span></blockquote></div>