Actually it was a quadripoint from 1815-1918.
Moresnet was in dispute between Prussia and Holland afteer the Congress of
Vienna and so became a neutral zone between them (it contianed a valuable
zinc mine).
In 1830 Belgium became indep, and Moresnet became a Belg/Prussian neutral
zone, but still connected to Netherlands by a single point.
1918 treaty of Versailles, Belgium was awarded Eupen in Prussia (to be
affirmed by a 'plebiscite'in 1920) and so apart fomr the point, Moresnet was
now totally surrounded by Belgium (still it met Neth and Germany at the
point), so it was given to Belgium too.
In 1977 Moresnet commune was amalgamated with nearby commeunes, so the shape
of it has changed only recently. 1815-1977 it existed as an international
entity or a commune (called Kelmis by the Belgians).
Brendan

>From: michael donner <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] tp belgium germany holland aka bedenl
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:32:31 -0400
>
>the present bedenl point was between 1919 & 1922 actually a
> >trinational quadripoint with a binational bede neutral zone
> >& the conjunction as a whole was therefore topologically identical to the
> >other suspected similarly defunct example which arif is on the track of
>at
> >present day tp iraq kuwait saudi arabia
>
>& if you zoom in on bedenl at mapquest
>you will see a municipal boundary also converging upon it from the ssw
>which in fact formerly separated the bede neutral zone from belgium
>& thus for a few years promoted this tp into a trinational quadripoint
>
>m
>
>

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