hi,

i made some pictures from the situation between marker 4 and 6. there is an interesting situation. on the map it looks like there is just one street. this is not correct. if you come from marker 6 then close to marker 5 the street gets divided into two, side by side, one inside büsingen territory, one in switzerland territory.

as soon as i get a possibility to scan the pics i will send them.

regards, chris

----- Original Message -----

From: Ernst Stavro Blofeld

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:07 AM

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Extraterritorial marker at Buesingen

The recent discussion of a border marker on the CH-bank at ATCHLIN made me take a second look at the situation at Buesingen, which is similar in that the southern border of the exclave coincides with the thalweg of, as it were, the same river as at ATCHLIN. On the attachment you will notice that marker number 2 of the Buesingen border is on the north bank of the river Rhine. Actually it sits in the middle of the lawn of a private garden, a fact that could no doubt spawn another interesting discussion here on the subject of privately "owned" border segments... :) Note marker 1A on the south bank of the river. This is clearly intended to establish the border's trajectory from the shore to the thalweg. However, the thalweg principle is disputable here, since there is a marker 1 more or less in the middle of the river. Allegedly, this is a large block of rock with an inscription on the flatish top face, which is submerged a meter or so at low water table. Here is food for another discussion on submerged or underground bordermarkers, I suppose. (I know of at least one other marker that is completely under the surface of the earth, and a handful or so whose upper face aligns with the ground.) M __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail