Nobody I've ever contacted in towns in the area knows. The treaty
says the track bed - how deep does that go? To a depth immediately
below the rocks laying on the dirt over which the rails are laid? Or
to a depth to bottoms of the drainage pipes belonging to the railroad?
Or, to the bottom of the arch over which the tracks pass. Or, to the
upper surface of the road bed under the bridge? Or to a point in
between - like truck height - so that a truck on the road doesn't
violate Belgian airspace? (After all, a truck loaded with cigarettes
on the back that crosses the border without declaring the cargo for
tax and customs duty, would be a smuggler, no?) If the road directly
underneath the bridge is German, the border had to make a deviation
from descending vertically at some point. If the bottom of the road
bed under the tunnel is the depth at which the ground becomes Belgian
again as we descend, then the German road forms a tunnel of
sovereignty connecting the two pieces of Germany on the W & E sides of
the railroad tracks. Of course, if below the road, to the middle of
the earth (or beyond) the soil remains German, then, there is no
"tube" or tunnel of German sovereignty, only a "shell" or cover of
Belgian sovereignty on top of all that German land.
What a picture.
We had tubes of sovereignty in the form of the allied air access
routes over E Germany to W. Berlin... by treaty, they had a width, a
minimum altitude and a maximum altitude, beyond which the the allies
had no rights. The western powers had no rights of access to planes
that crashed on the ground, because to get to the ground, they had to
leave the corridor.
Regards
LN
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen" <jesniel@i...>
wrote:
> So when does the border change direction? The air below the bridge
or at the
> bridge?
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> Jesper
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> vegne af L. A. Nadybal
> Sendt: 30. august 2005 03:49
> Til: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Emne: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Where is this German exclave in Belgium?
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>
> This goes back to the discussions we had earlier this year about
> sovereignty always or not always being vertical, extending to the
> heavens and to the center of the earth. See the photo library and
> past messages - there is a diagram there getting to the heart of what
> is included in the "track bed". This concept of interrupted
> verticality of borders existed at Steinstuecken (where there was a W
> German bridge over E German RR tracks inside the W Berlin exclave),
> still exists on the bridges over the US-Mexico border, and on the
> bridge crossing the D-Luxembourg condominium.
> LN
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Wallis" <hugh@o...> wrote:
> > I wish I had been there :) Do you remember exactly where on the
> railway line
> > that bridge lies?
> >
> > The reason this picture interests me so much is that it has raised a
> > question in my mind about the exclave status of the parcel of land
> connected
> > to "the mainland" by the road under the bridge. Without access to
> the legal
> > documents and only being able to go on what I find on websites it is
> hard to
> > be certain but here is the thinking:
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