Hello,

as far as I know there never was any boundary change in Lake
Constance, the position of any line or even the qualification of the
whole lake as a condominium has been always disputed.

I would guess that this is just an "optimictic" depiction and wishful
thinking by the German map makers.

Anton

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "pete2784west"
<pete2784west@y...> 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