thanx
confirming these must be tripoint ghosts only
&
i now realize
possibly not even state line rocks any more either
yikes
so do these new facts on the ground knock the entire new iron curtain 7 tripoint bike ride
seriously out of whack too
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Wolfgang Schaub" <Wolfgang.Schaub@c...>
wrote:
>
> Part of what was Thuringia yesterday belongs to Bavaria today. Examples:
> Coburg and Ostheim are Bavarian today. Some of the border "corrections"
> happened as a result of WW II, or, in other words, since the American
> retreat from occupied Thuringia did not stop exactly where the former
> borders were.
>
> Similar "corrections" happened in the city of Mainz (just accidentally where
> the map comes from): Mainz-Kastel, previously part of Mainz, now capital of
> Rhineland-Palatine, now belongs to Hesse, because the Americans wanted to
> have the river as a border, and occasionally rumblings shatter the city,
> mostly around carneval, to review and revise the border and return to the
> "good old times".
>
> Wolfgang
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com]Im Auftrag von aletheiak
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 13. November 2005 15:45
> An: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: [BoundaryPoint] Re: VS: Old tp photo
>
>
> somewhat better map
> http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/gif/71th_a4.htm
> confirms the only 2 likely locations for bavaria coburg meinengen tripoints
> but i find the present landkreise borders within thuringia dont seem to
> follow any of these
> historic borders
> & moreover good maps of these have proved elusive
>
> at this point my impression & hunch are that both these tripoints are only
> ghosts
> whichever of them you may have found the picture of
>
> but whoever rides the new iron curtain tripointing bike trail should keep an
> eye out for
> them
> of course along with the 7 modern tristate points
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > hmm interesting
> > so would this be bysnth then
> > as in bavaria saxony thuringia
> > http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/germany.jpg
> >
> > probably not
> >
> >
> > more likely
> > one of the pink 1c meinengen & orange 1e coburg
> > tripoints shown adjoining the greenish bavaria
> > westward of bysnth on byth
> > http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/gif/d871_a3.htm
> >
> > hence likely de2byth3xxyyzz
> >
> > but how could we pin this down for sure
> > let alone solve for all the 3 unknowns
> >
> > --- Jesper Nielsen <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _____
> > >
> > > Fra: Jesper Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@i...]
> > > Sendt: 13. november 2005 00:20
> > > Til: 'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'
> > > Emne: Old tp photo
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.ena.lu/europe/success%20crisis/iron%20curtain%20border%20point%20
> > > three%20territories%201965.htm
> > >
> > >
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