I think, this photo is taken from North, that is from the Prussian side. To the left on the wall, there is a Lithuainian "white knight" coat-of-arms, to the right, there is the Polish "eagle" coat-of-arms. Here probably begins the historical border between Poland and Lithuania, though at the time of 1545, both states constituted a partial political union.
This place has been a functional tripoint for ages, both before and after 1545. I guess about 500 years all together. In the late 18th century, when Poland began to disintegrate and Lithuania has been torn apart, this tripoint lost its original meaning and it continued so until the present day. Now, it 's a part of a single unit territory.
Petter
Peter Smaardijk <smaardijk@...> wrote:
A picture of an old tripoint marker in Poland, near the villages of
Prostki and Bogusze (SE of E³k):
http://www.castlesofpoland.com/prusy/elkdzis_po030.htm . Acc. to the
Google cache of www.biebrza.org.pl/pol/kult/hist.html , this is an
old tripoint marker (placed in 1545) on the tripoint of Mazovia
(Poland), Prussia, and Lithuania. It served as a boundary marker on
the border between Poland-Lithuania, later Poland, and Prussia, later
Germany, until 1939 (excluding a certain period of course when there
was no Poland...).
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