Hello Brydan

Thanks for joining our group and for giving such great informartion.

On my search for great German-maps I found http://www.map24.com

Jesper

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From: <brwhyte@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:56 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: County exclaves and fragments

> Find Aachen, Germany in your atlas. Find the belgian town of Eupen,
> 10 miles to the south. Now head east. Just across the border back in
> germany is Rotgen, and 6 miles SE of that is Monschau. The 5 enclaves
> are along this border between Rotgen and Monschau. If you have a good
> map it will show the rail line crossing the border in several places.
> When the rail line goes into germany, it is actually Belgian
> sovereign territory.
> Belgian 1:100 000 maps and larger scales show it nicely. As the rail
> line is only used for freight, not passengers, nowadays, no one
> really cares about it.
> I hope to go there in the next month.
>
> Brendan Whyte
>
> > Do you know where this is exactly? Can you give us more details?
> >
> > Jesper
> >
> >
> > > The second are five pieces of German territory in
> > > Belgium. What happens is that there is a railway,
> > > which is not only owned by Belgium, but it also owns
> > > the land on which the rail goes. When the railroad
> > > goes into German territory and comes back, it creates
> > > enclaves of German territory in between Belgium and
> > > the railway. There are five such enclaves. The
> > > enclaves show up as enclaves in German and Belgian
> > > topo maps.
> > >
>
>
>
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