Fantanstic!
A bottle of Jaegermeister for the man, please waiter. That's the info I
needed.
I was under the impression the cross was on the point itself, but that was
hearsay. I look forward to photos form the tripoint trip next year. Perhaps
someone better inform the tourist offfice too, as they had it wrong before.
ONe thing though, an enclave is TOALLY surrounded by an other entity. With a
point-connection, Jungholz is not an enclave. It's a singularity. Or at the
very least a pene-enclave, as it IS connected to the rest of Austraia, but
it is not possible to get to it fomr Austria without violating Germany. And
in fact access is easiest fomr germany, mountain slopes and infinitely thin
points aside.
Well done!
Brendan, enraptured to find the missing link in his enclave theory
formulation.
>From: "Peter & Marianne Hering" <hering@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Celebration time - Jungholz mystery solved (I
>hope...)
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:04:39 +0100
>
>Hello everybody,
>this is the moment I've been waiting for - frankly this tiny
>Alpine village of Jungholz has caused a lot of headache,
>and is the reason why my bottles of Scotch have disappeared
>so quickly...
>But now - listen:
>This morning I rang up Jungholz and the lady in the tourist-office
>connected me with the most reliable person in this matter I've been
>talking to until now...!
>Mr. Max Tauscher is o u r man in Jungholz, cause he knows all
>about the area, has written books and could tell me the whole truth -
>and nothing but the truth I hope - about our queries.
>This is the fact: Jungholz is an enclave, because on top of the
>mountain "Sorgschrofen" the boundary lines of Germany meet
>with the Austrian lines in one point ! The actual point is carved into
>the rock ...!
>He also knew about the theory of a "passage" 3 meters wide, that
>he commented as "fairy tale" - most likely because 2 meters from
>"our" point there is a geometrical point, a kind of cross that you find
>on many mountain tops.. - this "cross" is entirely on Austrian soil,
>so maybe that's why many people think that must be the "passage".
>(that was my theory, too!)
>So folks - celebration time - and frankly, I think I've deserved Jesper's
>gold medal plus a bottle of fine Bourbon when we meet next year -
>Cheers - Skaal !!!
>Peter
>
>PS: my homepage is still under construction, Jesper has been a very
>great help setting up what you see by now - and there's much more to
>come...
>Pete
>
>
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