Denmark is so organized that they know everything
about you.
I read the bedroom story many years ago. A family
staying right on the municipality line (can't remember where to my own regret)
and was to expand there house or move bedroom. Moving bedroom would in their
case mean moving municipality, but they managed to get the two involved
municipalities to do a border revision, which meant they stayed in the
municipality.
I don't think there are that many divided houses on
municipality lines in Denmark, however on the Copenhagen-Frederiksberg border,
there is a divided supermarket, a divided take away and a divided
(abandonded) car workshop. The big medical company Novo Nordisk has buildings on
each side of the border and have bridges connecting the buildings. The brewery
Carlsberg's grounds do or did also straddle the border. On maps I
have seen a building where the border changes direction twice, but
the buildings straddling the borders are gone, and that's why I am not
sure if ground still belong to Carlsberg.
A metro station opening later this year is
also being build on the line.
After Frederiksberg put up a GIS site, it
looks like there is a shopping street where the border does not follow the house
walls (making the shops pene enclaves), but 10 or so centimeters inside the
shop, but this is unconfirmed.
The border does not divided any flats, but it does
divide a house with flats, leaving half in each country.
As Doug and Mike is comming to Copenhagen next
week, I might plan to show them the divided shopping street if they are
interested. I will see if I can make a scan of the street.
Jesper
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:36
AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] property
straddles border-municipal / county / state / national???
Jesper,
>In Denmark you live in the municipality
where you bedroom is.
How on earth do the authorities know where your
bedroom is?
>In Baarle (BE/NL) who live in the country where you
main door is.
At least it's reasonably impractical for most people to
move their front
door (although I know it's happened)
;-)
Regards,
Kevin Meynell
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