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Von: aletheia kallos [mailto:aletheiak@...]
Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Januar 2005 21:59
An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Freistaat Flaschenhals
Wolfgang Schaub <Wolfgang.Schaub@...> wrote:This Saturday was a brilliant sun-shiny winter day, perfect for "field
studies" in the Freistaat Flaschenhals. First I inspected a contemporary map
presented by Mr. Frank Sulek of Bodenthal 2, Lorch, head of the local
historical club. Frank also runs the nearby campingground "Suleika" in the
Bodental valley.
The Flaschenhals, in its narrowest section, was about 100 m wide, near
Egenroth. Circles of precisely 30 km had been drawn around Feste
Ehrenbreitstein, Koblenz, by the American army, and around Fort Malakoff,
Mainz, by the French, respectively. Another circle drawn by the Brits around
Cologne is irrelevant here. There were no roads leading through the
bottleneck, so that people who wanted to go to the nearest unoccupied
district capital, Limburg, had to do this on foot across fields, unless they
could pass the controlled boundaries.
The village of Laufenselden, northeast of Egenroth, is placed at a section
of the Flaschenhals where it begins to open gradually towards NE.
Laufenselden is the first village with access to main-Germany; it had been
occupied by the French initially - in excess of the 30 km radius -, but they
were convinced to let it go after a week. So the NE border, if you will, of
the Flaschenhals is an imaginary line running NW - SE between Egenroth and
Laufenselden, forming virtual tripoints in a distance of about 100 m.
could you explain more what you mean by virtual tripoints
this is a new idea for me
& i dont yet follow you here
Currently a history student is preparing his PhD thesis about events in and
around the Flaschenhals, from documents to be found in the Hessische
Staatsarchiv Wiesbaden, and I will enquire in about a year or so whether
there is a chance to obtain copies of his thesis.
A much better known historical boundary touches the Flaschenhals at its NE
end: The Roman Limes. 1850 years ago this was the boundary between the Roman
empire and the barbaric Germanic tribal zone. 2 - 3 km west of Laufenselden
is a section of the limes with wall, dip and watchtower foundations still
visible in the fields.
Wolfgang
PS: Not to forget: I identified and "climbed" the highest point in the
Flaschenhals - an unnamed point of 537 m altitude in the Kemeler Heide
between Egenroth and Laufenselden.
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