Thank you for this interesting report from
one of our most favored areas.
I believe that boundary stone nr 1 at the southwest
corner of LI is actually on the left bank of the
Rhine, where it acts as an indirect marker for the
actual turning point which should be in the thalweg of
the river.
If your Büsingen map shows a wet german passage from
mainland Germany to Büsingen, I believe that this is
not entirely correct.
In fact, I think that, although there is a reference
marker on the south river bank, the actual boundary
turning point, in the middle of the river as it were,
is marked by a big rock about one meter below the
surface, with an inscription relating to the fact that
it's actually a boundary marker. I would love to see a
picture of this rock.
Please, if it's not too much trouble for you, do share
all of your pictures!
M
--- Craig <
trehala@...> wrote:
> Bien di Boundary Point Amitgs ed Amitgas
>
> I have just returned from a month-long holiday in
> Switzerland where
> I sequestered myself in a Graubünden valley,
> enrolled in an
> intensive course in the Romansch language (Sursilvan
> idiom). After
> the course I had a few days off and I did some
> boundary hunting of
> my own.
>
> The first trip I took was to the southwestern point
> of
> Liechtenstein, where its border with Switzerland
> resembles that of a
> needle-like point. I had purchased a tabletop-sized
> map of
> Liechtenstein and was intrigued by this needle
> appendage that seemed
> to poke Switzerland like a flu shot. The needle
> looked no wider than
> a road, and I endeavoured to find the boundary
> markers with
> Switzerland.
>
> Sure enough, this part of Liechtenstein was no wider
> than a one-lane
> road, with the Rhine on one side and the boundary
> stones on the
> other. I did find stones numbers 2 and 5, marked "L"
> on one side
> and "S" on the other, and took photos. I also
> couldn't resist
> climbing on top of stone 2 and placing each foot on
> opposite sides
> of the chiselled red dividing line. (I feel like an
> initiated member
> of BoundaryPoint now.)
>
> I could not find the boundary stone number 1, and I
> even crawled
> through the forested cliff between the road and the
> river looking
> for it. Since I had found a stone number 2, did that
> mean (always)
> that there is a stone number 1? Would that one be
> nearer the Rhine
> riverbank (or, in the river itself)?
>
> My next excursion was to Büsingen, where I followed
> the western
> border and part of the northern border with
> Switzerland. During the
> entire way I took photos of each and every boundary
> stone marker. I
> even asked three people what country they lived in,
> since their
> houses were snug up to the border, or, in one case,
> their property
> was divided by it. I have photos of an
> internationally-bisected
> driveway.
>
> I would like to ask the members of this group if
> Büsingen really
> qualifies as an enclave (exclave) since it is
> accessible via the
> Rhine from the German bit of territory stuck between
> the two parts
> of Schaffhausen canton. I bought an enormous map of
> Schaffhausen
> canton and the international border here cuts the
> Rhine in half. One
> could go south to the German town of Gailingen, get
> in a boat and
> paddle westward to Büsingen. If one kept to the
> north shore of the
> Rhine the whole time, would one have ever left
> German territory? Or
> is this map wrong, and are both sides of the Rhine
> entirely Swiss
> territory between the parts of Schaffhausen canton
> that separate
> Büsingen from Gailingen?
>
> Craig Rowland
> Mississauga, Ontario
>
>
>
>
>
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