--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:

> > as you do appear to have hit here upon a former chdefr tripoint
> > in the second of the five pix at
> > http://lou.gabel.free.fr/Allemagne.htm
> >
> > but i need help in confirming or identifying its time & place
>
> Yes. Réchésy on the FR side (Terr. de Belfort, Franche-Comté),
> Pfetterhouse (Pfetterhausen in German) on the former DE side (Upper-
> Alsace, Alsace-Lorraine; nowadays Upper-Rhine, Alsace, FR), and
> Beurnevésin on the CH side (before 1979 in Bern, nowadays in Jura
> canton).
> >
> > did these tall & short rocks at rechesy rechezy richisy mark the
> > 1871chdefr1919 tricountry point
> > & thus presumably our contemporary chfr2alfrju also
> > meaning
> > the binational tripoint formed by the french regions of alsace &
> > franche compte with the swiss canton of jura
> >
> > or isnt that what the taller of the 2 must mark anyway
> > does anyone suppose
>
> More pics:
> http://www.pfetterhouse.net/pages/histoire/bref/3P.JPeg
> http://www.zollgeschichte.de/index.html?schweiz.htm
> http://homepage.sunrise.ch/homepage/schwitte/WW1%20Alscace.htm

(with

> explanation)

See also http://www.gms-reisen.ch/heft_45a.htm (picture and short
explanation).

> Peter