--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "David Birch" <dbirch@c...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > Another very curious part of West Berlin was Albrechts Teerofen.
A
> > motorway that for a very short stretch crosses WB territory, re-
> > enters the GDR, and then enters WB once more. This site looks at
> the
> > motorway, amongst other things. Later, a motorway by-pass was
built
> > to avoid Albrechts Teerofen. The now defunct stretch was used for
> > stunts for a German TV series.
>
> That leads me nicely to the next map I've posted to the files area!
> It's the south-western corner of a 1977 map published by the Berlin
> Transport Authority (BVG) showing bus routes in West Berlin. Here's
> the link:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/files/bvgmap.jpg
>
> This nicely shows the motorway by-pass (and includes Wüste Mark)
> although it doesn't show the old motorway at Albrechts Teerofen.
>
> However the main reason why I've posted the map is to draw
attention
> to the strange bus route "E" from Wannsee to the motorway junction
at
> Drewitz. I've still got the West Berlin bus timetable from my 1977
> visit and I've uploaded a scan of the page here:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/files/etimetable.jpg
>
> Why did the bus terminate in the middle of nowhere? (Was it an
> interchange point for GDR buses to places like Potsdam?) And why
was
> the service more frequent at weekends?
>
> Finally I'd just like to express my thanks to Mats for another
> excellent posting regarding the Bottcherberg exclaves - and I'm
> patiently hoping for something similar for Wüste Mark!
>
> David