The
sketchy "map" I had shown is just too unprecise. I am searching for a
contemporary larger scale map. Modern maps no longer refer to the former
bridgeheads and circles. In the meantime I ASSUME, as long as it's not proven,
that there was no road leading through the bottleneck to the outside
world.
However: A modern hiking map that I have shows a road leading
northwest from Zorn to Laufenselden, which may mean Laufenselden still was
accessible from the "Freistaat". The road continues to northeast 2.5 km beyond
Laufenselden to Reckenroth where it splits into two arms, one leading straight
NNW, the other ESE. Could be, therefore, that the Flaschenhals could not be
penetrated from NE.
Since
the area is practically on my doorstep I will investigate personally. In the
meantime the mayor of Lorch has provided a contact to somebody who knows the
details, and I will have to travel to see this person -- will let you
know.
Wolfgang
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Wolfgang Schaub"
<Wolfgang.Schaub@c...> 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.
but such a touch is not actually shown on your map
offering
nor btw on the apparently independently generated depiction
in
http://www.rheingau.de/flaschenhals
so
why do you begin by assuming they touched in any real sense
if anything
it appears in both depictions that there is no actual tangency
&
that laufenselden lies slightly beyond the neck area rather than
within
the proruption or the narrowest part of the neck
> 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.
it doesnt appear so on these maps
tho it isnt clear if there
was any actual overland communication thru
the bottleneck
so maybe
what is indicated is that there was a purely practical
rather than any
actual topological impasse & exclave of germany there
owing only to
the configuration of the available road network
but that is just a
feeble guess on my part to explain your curious &
as yet uncorrobated
assumption of some actual disjunction of a
germany minor from germany
major
so it might be better for you to say first exactly why you
believe
there actually was any practical or geographical disconnect
there
& if so
which kind
> 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
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