Hi,
there was something similar in Lithuania, very
simital time, at Perloja.
They had their Republika Perloja for nearly 5 years
as a special situation between the polish occupied Eastern part of Lithuania
around Vilnius and the "free" and independent Lithuania with at tis time Kaunas
as capital.
I asked Jan about it, he confirmed, but until now i
dont know a map, that shows Perloja.
Regards, Chris
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:27
AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Freistaat
Flaschenhals
Never heard of this situation before...but I'll toss
a
few back with jolly beer-drinking lions any day!
--- Wolfgang
Schaub
<Wolfgang.Schaub@...>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> it appears to me I "misuse" you
in the attempt to
> solve all my problems.
>
> Here I have
a new question: look at
> www.freistaat-flaschenhals.de
and you
> will find a short (German) description of the
> fantasy
"Free State
> Bottleneck" that "existed" 1919 - 1923 as the
result
> of the Versailles
> treaty after WWI.
>
>
All Germany left of the Rhine was occupied by French
> and American
forces; a
> zone of 50 km right of the Rhine was to be
>
de-militarized. Bridgeheads were
> formed opposite of Koblenz and Mainz,
and in circles
> of 30 km around Koblenz
> and Mainz the areas
within the circles were occupied
> by the American
> (Koblenz) and
French armies (Mainz), respectively.
>
> Both circles touched
each other at the village of
> Laufenselden as shown in
> the
appended sketch.
>
> This left a considerable area in "the limbo"
between
> the Rhine, the two
> circles and Laufenselden. This area
could not be
> reached anymore from the
> remaining Germany
without permission of the American
> or French army.
>
> In
an anarchic move the then mayor created the "Free
> State" and called
it
> "Flaschenhals" = Bottleneck. Like all towns and
> cities in
Germany in the
> ensuing inflation and paper money scarcity period
it
> issued its own paper
> money and coins.
>
> So
far the history. Now my question:
>
> Did the circles REALLY
touch each other at
> Laufenselden, or did they even
> overlap, or
did they only ALMOST touch each other?
> Does anyone have a map
>
where the circles are marked clearly?
>
> Thank you for all your
efforts,
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
> ATTACHMENT
part 2
application/msword
name=Flaschenhals.doc
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