thanxx petter for the wishes & the tripoint

smack on the right dimple of the upper rhein mouth

very nice

but i dont think it ever has been discussed here before as a tripoint

rather only as one of the 3 wet&dry common boundary points

namely 1 of atde & 1 of chde as well as this point on modern atch of which you speak

all of which together determine the position of a modern hypothetical equidistance atchde tripoint deep within the lake

i say hypothetical because there is no agreement & there are differences of opinion about whether & how to split the lake up

so i stress this is only a broad presumption in lieu of any agreement

& i am not aware of the boundary change you describe

but can you perhaps show us your map

for maybe it is just incorrect or misleading in ascribing too much of the lake to germany

pete2784west <pete2784west@...> wrote:

Hallo everybody and Happy New Year! Now to the point. I happened to come across an old road map which covers Germany as it looked liked in 1927. Then, the tripoint between Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been an intersection of three lines being placed right at the mouth of Rhein river to the Bodensee. The borderline between Germany and Austria in Bodensee have been created by a straight line between the point where the German-Austrian border leaves land and the point where it meets Austrian-Swiss border following the Rhein river. Also, the border between Switzerland and Austria shows that it was not the thalweg, midstream or whatever in the water of Rhein river, but that the entire Rhein river including all river islands were part of Switzerland. Austria began on the right shore of Rhein river. So the tripoint between these countries have been the tip of the right bank of Rhein river. This means a point which is in fact half wet-half dry. It has certainly been topic here before. I just wondered when did the countries left this (today a ghost) tripoint? Petter

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