Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: DE-L Condo Tripoints
Date: Apr 04, 2005 @ 04:50
Author: Rolf Palmberg LI ("Rolf Palmberg LI" <rpalmber@...>)
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>It seems to be just as you say, the way I read the German version of<BR>
>the treaty that revised the old one. I was suprised to learn that<BR>
>this condo has existed since about the 1830s, and that the 20th<BR>
>century treaty was a revision of the original. The river has had<BR>
>plenty of time to accrete... but the map shows a wide variance between<BR>
>water and shore south of Wasserbillig - at least 20-30 meters at a<BR>
>couple of places. Amost as though sand banks count as water. <BR>
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>At the time when Luxembourg had been assimilated into the<BR>
>Grossdeutschesreich in the 1940s, the condo must not have existed. It<BR>
>may be that in WW I it ceased to exist, too. I wonder what document<BR>
>brought it back into being.<BR>
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>--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...><BR>
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>"....to which i would only add at this point on further reflection<BR>
>that i think all the condo markers must be indirect or witness monuments<BR>
>since the legal riverbank limits of the condo are evidently accreting &<BR>
>decreasing every<BR>
>which way all the time with every change in the levels of the rivers<BR>
>& that the condo borders are thus in fact not static<BR>
>as they would have been if the markers were direct<BR>
>but are always in flux with the actual waterlines on the banks<BR>
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>or isnt that legally & definitively so"<BR>
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