Subject: Another boundary in the middle of the road<br/>
Date: Aug 04, 2001 @ 00:22<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Peter=20Smaardijk?= &lt;smaardijk@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-902297570">Thinking about boundaries in the middle of the road… I could not help<br/>
but think of this picture (from the book &quot;&quot;Freie Stadt&quot; zwischen<br/>
Stacheldraht?&quot;, from which I already posted some pictures), which I<br/>
scanned for you, showing the Nennhauser Damm in Berlin. Interesting not<br/>
only because it shows the consequences of the split road, but also<br/>
because this is a stretch of boundary that was a result of the<br/>
territory swap that took place between the Soviet Union and Britain, so<br/>
that both powers could possess a complete airfield (the Staaken-Gatow<br/>
swap). The Staaken boundary change was annulled after the two Germanies<br/>
merged, but the Gatow one wasn’t. This is the old Staaken boundary,<br/>
which served as a boundary during the East/West-Berlin situation.<br/>
Nowadays it is well within Berlin Land.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
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