Subject: english quad was Re: Historic Tripoint: Russia / Germany / Austria-Hungary
Date: Aug 28, 2006 @ 23:34
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> welcome nicky & thanx for all the great news
> tho i got only as far as this tantalizing teaser page
> http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/article_info.php?articles_id=244
> so please do follow up as soon as possible with the
> balance of the report if you can
> or with as much as you can if you cant
>
> in the meantime these excerpts from our recent ongoing
> & perhaps even simultaneous quest for your great
> english quadripoint may interest you as well as
> explain my excitement over seeing it evidently
> referred to in your article
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19709
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19710
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19712
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19714
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/19716
>
> indeed your article fairly promises to be an answer to
> our calls for help
>
>
> also
> about your above title
> the following much older highlight from
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/1715
> A very nice site about the old tp atderu:
> http://www.zollgeschichte.de/monatskarten/11_98.htm
> To continue: click on Dreikaiserreichsecke. Lots of
> old postcards.
>
> --- Nicky Gardner <nicky@...> wrote:
>
> > The September 2006 issue of hidden europe magazine
> > has an article on the
> > art of bagging tripoints. The tripoint and
> > quadripoint examples it
> > includes are possibly well worn examples, many
> > surely well-known to
> > members of this forum. But it does include a report
> > from the point,
> > southeast of Myslowice in southern Poland, where a
> > hundred years ago the
> > territories of three great empires met at a
> > tri-point. The
> > Dreikaiserreichs Ecke is nowadays a rather forlorn
> > spot, but there was a
> > time when visiting this tripoint was seen as a
> > curious excursion. There
> > are many late nineteenth century postcards of the
> > spot, many including
> > images of the Kaiser, the Tsar and the Austrian
> > Emperor. For those
> > interested, the hidden europe website is at
> > www.hiddeneurope.co.uk
> > <http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk> . The magazine has
> > regularly carried
> > articles on aspects of life in any around European
> > borders.
> >
>
>
>
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