thank you
thank you
these appear to validate my every surmise
right down to the location of the tripoint
wouldnt you agree
centered atop the tallest rock
now that is extreme fun
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- 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%20Alsca
ce.htm
> (with
> > explanation)
>
> See also http://www.gms-reisen.ch/heft_45a.htm (picture and
short
> explanation).
> > Peter