hello,

thanks for the informative information. I have been to the
Vaalserberg quite a few times alone and with (border-)friends, and I
have taken quite a number of photos.

However I have one little correction: the Vaalserberg is NOT the
highest point of the Netherlands!

The 'Mount Scenery' on the Dutch Caribean island of 'Saba, N.A.'
truly is the highest point of The Netherlands: 887m.

The Vaalserberg just has 322,5m.

The story about New-Moresnet is supported by the fact that the road
leading to the top is called 'Viergrenzenweg'. (four border road)

Best regards
Bernd Kueck

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Wolfgang Schaub"
<Wolfgang.Schaub@c...> wrote:

> Has anybody of you cast an eye on the Vaalserberg already?

Netherland's

> highest mountain and - today - a tripoint: BEDENL.
>
> Historically, it started as something between a simple borderline

and a

> tripoint, and this was in 1816, when the hybrid state of Neutral-

Moresnet

> was founded. So we had NL/Prussia/Neutra-Moresnet then on top of

the

> Vaalserberg.
>
> Neutral-Moresnet was co-governed by Prussia and the Netherlands.

So actually

> we can take this hybrid only half seriously. Which means, our

tripoint was

> in fact perhaps only a 2 1/2-point.
>
> 1830 Belgium was created. Our tripont (or 2 1/2 if you will)

promoted to a

> quadripont (or 3 1/2 ?). Neutral-Moresnet was then co-governed by

Belgium

> and Prussia.
>
> 1870 we see Prussia disappear in the German Reich. So our

quadripoint was

> then BE/DE/NL/Neutral-Moresnet, but did not change its "value".
>
> 1914 Neutral-Moresnet was annexed to the Reich, but this - due to

the war -

> was never acknowledged by anybody. Our almost-quadripoint

degenerated to a

> mere tripoint BE/DE/NL - or was it still 3 1/2?
>
> Finally, in 1919, the Versailles treaty abolished Neutral-Moresnet

and gave

> it Belgium. So Vaalserberg has become a true tripoint.
>
> What do our scientists say? Is it too complicated for you? So

sorry.

>
> I just would be interested if science knows anything about points

in a

> continuum. Normally our points jump in quantum leaps.
>
> Wolfgang