Subject: Büsingen gets new, illuminated border markers<br/>
Date: Mar 09, 2004 @ 02:43<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-794268685">I just posted a photo in the BPt-Büsingen photo folder of workmen<br/>
lifting the new oversized, illuminated (it lights up at night!!)<br/>
border marker into place on the main road leading from Schaffhausen<br/>
into Büsingen.  It is one of two new ones put up last year - the other<br/>
is on the main road at the eastern end of the exclave.  Of the 123<br/>
visible border markers surrounding the enclave, these two are the only<br/>
new ones to be set.   They were deliberately made so large so that<br/>
they can serve as an advertisement of the presence of the exclave. <br/>
The lettering reproduced on them mirrors, in larger size, the exact<br/>
style of the  lettering that are on the stones that were replaced.<br/>
<br/>
According to a recent news article, the inscriptions read, in the<br/>
direction of Schaffhausen, &quot;CS-S&quot;, for &quot;Canton Schaffhausen –<br/>
Schaffhausen, and in the direction of Büsingen &quot;GB-B&quot; for<br/>
&quot;Grossherzogtum Baden–Büsingen&quot; (Grand Duchy of Baden-[gemeinde or<br/>
town of] Büsingen).  On the third side the year &quot;1839&quot; is engraved,<br/>
which is the year that the final borders were established.  On the<br/>
fourth side is the year 2003, for the year that the markers were set.<br/>
<br/>
Regards to all<br/>
<br/>
LN in DC</div>