Just picking up on an old discussion here (Arif and Chris discussed
this strange border situation in Switzerland):
The border between the cantons of Vaud (exclave of Avenches and
Cudrefin) and Bern at the Canal de la Broye (near La Sauge) was put
into question. It looked like the Vaud border followed the centre
line of the canal, while the Bern border followed the north bank of
it, thus leaving the northern half of the canal to the canton of
Fribourg/Freiburg. First it was thought that Fribourg/Freiburg
continued all this way to the Neuchâtel lake, ending in a tiny
triangle of land (with a bird watching tower) north of the mouth of
the Canal de la Broye, but then I found proof of that triangle
belonging to Neuchâtel canton.
Now I have visited the map site of Neuchâtel canton at
http://www.ne.ch/ (
http://tinyurl.com/pzkd ), and although at a
larger scale the situation is not very clear, at 1:50000 and 1:25000
the border of Bern can be seen, running along the northern bank. Now
the interesting part is where Fribourg/Freiburg reaches Neuchâtel.
The Fribourg/Freiburg half of the canal is continuing another 400 m
or so after reaching the CH2BEFRNE tripoint, up to the point where
the CH2FRNE border is turning towards the centre of the canal (at
this point in between the breakwaters on both sides of the Canal de
la Broye mouth into the Lac de Neuchâtel), towards the tripoint
CH2FRNEVD.
So this stretch of CH2BEVD boundary really doesn't exist; what does
exist is a tiny stretch of CH2FRNE.
Peter
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> It looks like the tiny area north of the Canal de la Broye, with
the
> Obs. Ornith. (bird observation spot), is part of the canton of
> Neuchâtel! Cf. this decree by Neuchâtel canton:
> http://minor3.ne.ch/RSN/ajour/dati/f/s/46121.htm (the link seems to
> be dead, but Google still keeps a cache, which you can reach by
> entering the url at Google). Look at art. 1, point 16. It looks
like
> being a part of Marin-Epagnier municipality. Cf. also
> http://www.birdlife.ch/f/lasauge/lasauge_fanel.html .
>
> Peter S.
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...>
> wrote:
> > That's exactly the place I was talking about. Doesn't
> > it look like half the river is a corridor for Fribourg
> > which invalidates the Bern-Vaud border that looks like
> > a reality in less detailed pictures. I am attaching a
> > Vaud map which actually is even more confusing than
> > your map (I just figured out how to get rid of the
> > water layer which hid the border previously) along
> > with a topo map slightly less detailed and to the west
> > of yours. In my map, the boundary continues to be a
> > corridor with a possible fragment of Vaud creating a
> > ninth coastline plus a Vaud-Bern border. I will leave
> > somebody else to figure out what exactly is going on.
> > Thank you for your search of proofs of the 4-point.
> > Arif
> >
> >
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