Subject: Re: Ger-Lux
Date: Oct 07, 2003 @ 10:02
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Manfred Haertel, DB3HM"
> <Manfred.Haertel@r...> wrote:
> > Were there more areas than Selfkant (which was given back only in
> 1963)?
> >
> > --
> > Manfred Härtel, DB3HM
>
> Yes, in the case of DENL, the other "bigger" area that became Dutch
> in 1949 and German again in 1963 was the village of Elten, near
> Emmerich. Other, much smaller areas where at various other points
> along the boundary, e.g. in Suderwick, opposite Dinxperlo.
>
> As far as I know, all areas were returned to Germany in 1963, with
> the exception of an area between Beek (NL) and Zyfflich (DE), known
> as the "Duivelsberg" (Devil's mountain). This area is still Dutch.
>
> Peter S.